A concert of New Yiddish Poetry and New Music
Tue, Jun 09
|Grüner Salon
Di Shkatulkeles & Patrick Farrell + Yael Merlini: An Evening of New Yiddish Poetry from Berlin June 9, 2026 – 19:30 Uhr – @Grüner Salon €15 VVK – €20 at the door Doors: 18:00
Time & Location
Jun 09, 2026, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Grüner Salon, Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz 2, 10178 Berlin, Germany
About the event
Shtetl Berlin's 2026 Festival kicks off on June 9 at Grüner Salon (19:30) with an evening celebrating the flowering of new Yiddish poetry written right here in Berlin. From the Middle Ages through the interwar avant-garde, Berlin has been a center of Yiddish art, music, and culture at key moments over the centuries — and today a new generation of writers and musicians carries that tradition forward. This concert presents two acts that offer a vivid snapshot of contemporary Yiddish creativity in the city: original compositions and poetry by Patrick Farrell and Yael Merlini, and Di Shkatulkeles, performing new settings of poems by Katerina Kuznetsova. Copies of Kuznetsova's newly published book Glozperl will be available for sale and signing by the author at the concert.
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