Name: Yiddish theatre and American popular music
Start: 2025-06-08T10:45:00+1000
End: 2025-06-08T11:45:00+1000

Welcome to the program for Limmud Oz Melbourne 2025!

Join us for an immersive weekend festival of Jewish ideas and culture, with >100 presenters and sessions to choose from.
From Ben-Gurion to bagels, Yentl to yoga, we always have something for everyone. Limmud is an opportunity for you to cultivate a personal Jewish experience and learn from presenters you might never come across otherwise.

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Sunday June 8, 2025 10:45am - 11:45am AEST

SG.10 - Rm 5

This talk will present the influence of Jews in American Theatre in the 1930s and then show how Jewish topics are part of Broadway from Fiddler on the Roof to Falsettos. I will show a three-step process: first, Jews created musical with utopian ideals to express their desire to be American Jews, without Jewish content; second, showcasing Jewish life in that despite the challenges Jewish tradition remains; third, American Jewish life is full of challenges

Speakers

Mark Kligman

Mark Kligman is the Mickey Katz Endowed Chair in Jewish Music at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. He is Professor of Ethnomusicology, Musicology and Humanities. In 2020l he was appointed Director of the Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience.

Sunday June 8, 2025 10:45am - 11:45am AEST
SG.10 - Rm 5

Arts and culture

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Limmud Oz Melbourne 2025

Mark Kligman

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