Toronto Workmen's Circle Foundation and the UJA Commitee for Yiddish Present an Online Talk with MIRIAM BORDEN

 

 

Yiddish Lullabies:

Singing the Unspeakable

 

Presented Live on Zoom, Sunday February 23rd, 2025

Please note: The recording will only be available until March 10, 2025.

 

In the entire corpus of Yiddish folk songs, viglider (lullabies) form the largest genre: there are hundreds of lullabies on dozens of themes. Some are well known; many others are not. In this talk, Miriam Borden explores some lesser-known Yiddish lullabies and suggests the reason this genre has remained so compelling for Yiddish writers, singers, and scholars for generations.

Questions? Please contact Mel Cederbaum from the Toronto Workmen's Circle Foundation, wcarto@yahoo.com.

Miriam Borden is a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto and a Lecturer at the University of California Berkeley specializing in Yiddish literature and culture. She teaches courses on Yiddish language, literature, and history, serves as a director of the Toronto Workmen’s Circle Foundation, and is active as a historian of Yiddish in Toronto.

 

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