Mark Levy “In Kamf” – speaking on the Yiddish Songs of the Jewish Labor Movement at KlezCalifornia’s 2010 Yiddish Culture Festival.What began as local organizing efforts in Poland and Russia continued in the U.S. as immigrant workers quickly learned that labor in the New World needed unions, too. You will learn songs from both sides of the ocean which chronicle this struggle for better pay and conditions in the workplace.
Biography:
(Felton, Santa Cruz County) Mark Levy has performed and taught in the San Francisco Bay Area for 25 years at temples, synagogues, JCC’s, Lehrhaus Judaica, Workmen’s Circle, and other Jewish groups. He has appeared throughout the country and abroad and is a singer and lecturer who specializes in older Judaic folk music in Yiddish, Hebrew, and Ladino, klezmer history and theory, and Jewish music history in general. He has performed for Yeshiva University’s Sephardic Department’s Semana Sepharad in New York, and is a cantorial soloist in California. He recently released a fourth album of Jewish music, Bin Ikh Mir A Shnayderl: Yiddish Work Songs, in commemoration of the 100th birthday of Workmen’s Circle, a fraternal order of Jewish workers and their families. See www.marklevymusic.com, mitzvahmus[at]aol.com, 888.505.8953.
