This is a list of Shtetl Berlin Online Workshops, starting January 2021.
For upcoming workshops please see the WORKSHOPS page.
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JANUARY 2021
  • Jan 12 - Instrumental Workshop with Christian Dawid and Patrick Farrell
Christian and Patrick get our Online Workshops (and the new year!) started off with a bang, presenting two great sirbas from recordings by Alexander Olshanetsky and Joseph Moskowitz. Everyone needs more sirbas in their repertoire! Let's play some triplets together!
  • Jan 19 - Vocal Workshop with Sasha Lurje and Daniel Kahn
Continuing their theme from Shtetl Berlin: “Aleyn Tsuzamen” - Yiddish songs of community, commotion, and communicable disease. Join Sasha Lurje and Daniel Kahn for a remote singing session exploring new and old Yiddish songs of solidarity, revolution, plagues, mass resistance, and love. Drawing on sources such as Beregovski, Gebirtig, the Yiddish theater, contemporary songwriters, and traditional ballads, these songs highlight our deep connections to one another, even in our separation. We are all alone together, let’s sing about it.
  • Jan 26 - Instrumental Workshop with Craig Judelman and Emil Goldschmidt - Playing melodies together
FEBRUARY 2021
  • ​Feb 2 - Vocal Workshop with Sasha Lurje and Daniel Kahn - “Aleyn Tsuzamen”
Yiddish songs of community, commotion, and communicable disease. Join Sasha Lurje and Daniel Kahn for a remote singing session exploring new and old Yiddish songs of solidarity, revolution, plagues, mass resistance, and love. Drawing on sources such as Beregovski, Gebirtig, the Yiddish theater, contemporary songwriters, and traditional ballads, these songs highlight our deep connections to one another, even in our separation. We are all alone together, let’s sing about it.
  • Feb 9 - Instrumental/Vocal Workshop with Ilya Shneyveys and Sarah Myerson - "Improvising in Yiddish modes"
In the times of social distancing and online latency, perhaps the only kind of music we can make together is music that has no meter. Luckily, Yiddish music offers extensive framework for that through genres like doina, forshpil and taksim in klezmer music, and through much of khazones (Jewish liturgical music), which is non-metrical. Historically, klezmer and khazones have always been two sides of the same musical coin, with klezmer melodies and performance being heavily influenced by the modes and motives of liturgical music. In this workshop, klezmer Ilya Shneyveys and Cantor Sarah Myerson will look into the connections between nusakh (modal system in Jewish liturgical music) and klezmer music and explore how these concepts can enhance your klezmer performance. Together we will learn some ways of using liturgical motives for modulation and improvisation and even attempt to play an online doina together! This workshop is open to instrumentalists, vocalists and anyone who wants to deepen their understanding of Yiddish music.
  • Feb 16 - Shtetl Bake-Along with Laurel Kratochvila - "Homentashn!"
It's almost Purim, so instead of scrounging for a questionable recipe off the internet, join master baker Laurel Kratochvila- owner of Fine Bagels in Berlin- for a homentashn Bake-Along! We'll be learning a recipe and technique that won't fall apart or spread. (Recipe can be made dairy or parve - up to you.) In addition to making this glorious dough, we'll be making fillings: mohn, lekvar, apricot - name your favorite! Here is your list of ingredients and materials. Everyone will walk away from the workshop with a dozen beautiful homentashn! With musical interludes from Sveta Kundish & Patrick Farrell, singing songs for Purim and the kitchen.
  • Feb 23 - Instrumental Workshop with Christina Crowder and Patrick Farrell - "Reading the Kiselgof Collection"
The international klezmer community is currently in a state of high excitement due to the recent work by The Klezmer Institute to obtain scans of multiple volumes of notebooks from Zinoviy Kiselgof's early-20th-Century ethnographic expeditions documenting the Jewish music of Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania. The ongoing, crowd-sourced digitization of this collection will take many months to complete, but in the meantime we have invited Christina Crowder - fantastic accordionist, a founder of the Klezmer Institute and one of the Kiselgof project leaders - to share a few particularly wonderful tunes which we think should become klezmer standards. She will also talk a bit about the project and some questions of interpreting century-old written manuscripts. Accordionist Patrick Farrell will join to help lead the workshop.
Learn to mix some classic cocktails from Geist im Glas owner Aishah Bennet, listen to songs, nigunim, and klezmer tunes from Shtetlers Sasha Lurje, Craig Judelman, and Patrick Farrell, hear deep thoughts from Avinoam Stillman, and watch a dirty puppet show broadcast all the way from Seattle by Adam Ende! Catch it live on Facebook or YouTube!
PURIM Happy Hour THIS THURSDAY - Feb. 25, 7pm!

Join us live on Facebook and YouTube for:
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  • Cocktail mixing mini-workshop with Geist im Glas owner Aisha Bennett. Aishah will teach us how to make the perfect Whiskey/Vodka Sour, a Pickle Juice Martini and a special Ashkenazi-friendly spicy beetroot Bloody Mary!
 
  • Join Shtetlers Sasha Lurje, Craig Judelman, and Patrick Farrell for some songs & nigunim, and our friend Avinoam Stillman for a couple of thoughts about why Purim is not just fun, but like, super deep.
 
  • In the spirit of Purimshpiln of old, a very entertaining not-for children puppet show by Adam Ende all the way from Seattle, Washington!​
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​​Be a part of the action: 

Download the pdf files below or check out the youtube playlist of tunes we'll play, and play/sing along at home!

​Make sure to check out the list of ingredients to prep for the cocktails. (Below with the pdf files.)

​There will be a couple of drinks which you can make on the spot, and one special drink that you can make with regular vodka during the event, and then infuse your own vodka to get the full effect later.
chassidishe_purim_nigunim_-_c_instruments.pdf
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chassidishe_purim_nigunim_-_bb_instruments.pdf
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purim_instrumentals_-_c_instruments.pdf
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purim_instrumentals_-_bb_instruments.pdf
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cocktal_menu_pourem_for_purim.pdf
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purim_song_lyrics.pdf
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The event will start at 19:00 and go until 20:30 (Berlin time), live on Facebook and YouTube 

A Freylikhn Purim!

Get in the mood with one of our favorite Purim Nigunim below,
​and we'll see you Thursday!