The Yiddish Hour: Yiddish and Yinglish Comedy Songs

Join Cantor Figa for “The Yiddish Hour,” a monthly appreciation of Yiddish song, Yiddish theater, and Yiddish wisdom.

Comedian and musician Mickey Katz. At the Yiddish Book Center, Mikey Katz’s son, Joel Grey, recalls how his father, Mickey Katz, became famous for writing Yiddish parody songs, including “Haim afen Range” (based on “Home on the Range”) and “Tickle, Tickle.”

February, 6:30pm

With Purim approaching, come laugh your touchas off with this month’s “The Yiddish hour” with Cantor Figa!  We’ll be listening to comedy songs, some all in Yiddish and some in the hilarious hybrid of “Yinglish.”

Explore the songs and parodies that kept your parents and grandparents in stitches. We’ll hear the likes of jokester and master musician Mickey Katz who in the 1950s through the mid-60s paved the way for Alan Sherman and down the line for Adam Sandler.

Hear popular hits by other comic geniuses like Leo Fuchs, Menashe Skulnick, Aaron Lebedeff, and Molly Picon.  If you ever felt lost when the set up was in English, and the punchline was in Yiddish, Cantor Figa will explain word for word all this side-splitting Yiddishe mishegas!

Zoom only; click here or use ID# 886 1553 5154. If you need the password, contact the Har Zion office during office hours.

“The Yiddish Hour” repeats on the 3rd Thursday of the month.