Hoffman, Schaechter, NYC, 10 Mar, 2014
Avi Hoffman and Binyumen Schaechter reunite
The National Yiddish Theatre - Folksbiene and the City University of New York
present "Reflections of a Lost Poet: The Life and Works of Itzik Manger"
written by Miriam Hoffman
Monday, March 10th, 2014, 7pm
Baruch Performing Arts Center
Baruch College
55 Lexington Avenue (entrance on 25th St.), Subway: 6, N, R
New York, NY 10010
ADMISSION: FREE
Reservations required, and limited: 646-312-5073
This funny and moving performance follows the life of the great Yiddish poet Itzik Manger. Through his songs and poems, including Afn veg shteyt a boym, Yidl mitn fidl and excerpts from Di Megile-lider, we discover his joy and anguishas he lived through the best and worst of times.
In Yiddish, with English and Russian supertitles.
Hoffman and Schaechter were the creative team
behind the hit revue, "Too Jewish?"