From the interwar avant-garde to today, Berlin has been a center of Yiddish culture. On June 9, meet the new generation: an evening of original Yiddish music and poetry with Patrick Farrell, Yael Merlini, and Di Shkatulkelekh.

Your gateway to all of Shtetl Berlin 2026. The Festival Pass covers every concert, workshop, lecture, and event across the full six days — from the opening night at Grüner Salon on June 9 through to the closing jam at UfaFabrik on June 14. Get your pass here.

The Neukölln Klezmer Jam: where Shtetl Berlin comes alive, one tune at a time.

Long before klezmer, there was Ashkenaz. On June 11, Simkhat HaNefesh and Ensemble Lucidarium resurrect the songs, dances, and melodies of Renaissance and Baroque Jewish Europe — repertoire almost no one else in the world performs.

A community Gathering in collaboration with the Interkulturelles Zentrum Neukölln - a Melting Pot Dinner with Shtetl Berlin Festival!

Want to join us for the weekend? The Weekend Pass gives you access to all events at UfaFabrik on Saturday June 13 and Sunday June 14 — including the headline concerts, all workshops and lectures, the klezmer brunch, community dance, and kids program. Get your pass here.

Learn from the masters. The weekend program brings workshops and lectures with world-class musicians and scholars from Berlin and beyond — klezmer, Yiddish song, the history of Jewish Berlin, Yiddish literature, and more. Available as a Daytime Pass, evening concerts not included.

Two days of dancing, stories, music, and imagination — with a little Yiddish woven in. This year, Shtetl Berlin has a full kids' program, and it's going to be something special. June 13 & 14, led by artists Eyal Davidovitch and Yeva Lapsker.

A rare opportunity — Muzsikás have no other German performances scheduled. Over fifty years, they have redefined Hungarian traditional music and rescued an entire chapter of Jewish musical heritage from oblivion, including music from Máramaros: The Lost Jewish Music of Transylvania.

Two legendary klezmer duos, two continents, one unmissable evening. Berlin's Khupe (Christian Dawid & Sanne Möricke) meet Buenos Aires' Lerner Moguilevsky Duo for an extraordinary closing concert — followed by our traditional Sunday jam session.