Songs of Hope and Resistance Hybrid
Thursday, April 28, 2022 • 27 Nisan 5782
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
In April of 1943, Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto began an uprising that lasted for months. This program tells the story of the resistance through song, poem, narrative and even jokes from inside the ghettos and camps.
The bravery of these men and women who, with very little ammunition and rations, were able to hold off the Nazi army and gestapo for almost a month until the ghetto was destroyed is commemorated in songs and poems collected after the end of the war. I have also included in the program rarely heard songs from other ghettos and camps describing the conditions and partisan resistance. We remember these fighters and take inspiration from their actions and the songs that accompanied them.
Bio: Mark Levy has performed and taught in the US for 45 years at temples, synagogues, JCC's, Lehrhaus Judaica, Workmen's Circle, and other Jewish groups. He has appeared throughout the country and abroad and is a singer and lecturer who specializes in older Judaic folk music in Yiddish, Hebrew, and Ladino, Klezmer history and theory, and Jewish music history in general. Mark has performed for Yeshiva University Sephardic Dept.'s Semana Sepharad in New York, and as a cantorial soloist in California and Oregon. He has released a fourth album of Jewish music entitled Bin Ikh Mir A Shnayderl: Yiddish Work Songs, in commemoration of the 100th birthday of Workmen's Circle, a fraternal order of Jewish workers and their families. Mark recently moved from the Santa Cruz area to Florence OR.
If you do not wish to join in person, there will be a livestream. Find the link here:https://www.tbeaptos.org/zoom-links.html
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