Information zur Barrierefreiheit: H24 ist ein ebenerdiger Hörsaal im Erdgeschoss des Vielberth-Gebäudes und mit Rollstuhl und Gehhilfe zu erreichen.
Veranstaltungssprache: Englisch
Um Voranmeldung unter sabine.koller@ur.de wird gebeten. Die Masterclass findet im Rahmen des Hauptseminars „Stimmen aus dem Ghetto/Voices from the Ghetto“ statt und ist Teil einer Veranstaltungsreihe mit Dr. Slepovitch:
01.07.2025 | 16:15 | Workshop „Zingt oyf Yiddish“
02.07.2025 | 17:00 | Lecture recital „In Many Tongues“
Zisl Slepovitch introduces and performs songs from the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies that he has worked on and that come from known ghettos, concentration camps, and occupied territories.
Dr. D. Zisl Slepovitch is a native of Minsk, Belarus, who has resided in the United States (New York) since 2008. He has earned Ph.D. in musicology at the Belarusian State Academy of Music. His primary research focus is on the traditional Jewish music in Eastern Europe. Slepovitch is a multi-instrumentalist klezmer, classical, and improvisational musician (woodwinds, keyboards); a composer, arranger, conductor, a music and Yiddish educator.
Slepovitch is a founding member of the critically acclaimed klezmer collective Litvakus and Zisl Slepovitch Ensemble. He has served in multiple performance and creative roles in numerous productions by the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (New York), State Jewish Theatre (Bucharest).
He serves as the Musician-in-Residence at Yale University’s Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, and in that capacity produced three critically acclaimed records. Among Slepovitch’s numerous theatre, film, and TV credits are the Defiance movie, Eternal Echoes album (Sony Classical), Rejoice with Itzhak Perlman and Cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot (PBS), and Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish (off-Broadway).
Die Veranstaltung wird von Prof. Dr. Katelijne Schiltz (Lehrstuhl für Musikwissenschaft) und Prof. Dr. Sabine Koller (Professur für Slavisch-Jüdische Studien) in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Leibniz ScienceCampus „Europe and America in the Modern World“ und dem Zentrum Erinnerungskultur organisiert.
Bildnachweis: © Yuliya Levit