This year’s virtual YIDSTOCK: The Festival of New Yiddish Music is tied to the Yiddish Book Center’s Decade of Discovery initiative and its theme for 2021, Yiddish and Social Justice. The program will feature a broad and eclectic repertoire of songs—including labor anthems, protest songs, humanitarian odes, songs of struggle, and songs based in Yiddish poetry and Jewish scripture—with artists hailing from Berlin, the Netherlands, the UK, and the US.

The 75-minute prerecorded program will stream beginning on Sunday, July 11 at 4PM (EDT) until Wednesday, July 14 at 4PM (EDT), and will be hosted by longtime YIDSTOCK artistic director Seth Rogovoy. In addition to the lineup of musical guests, it will include a range of archival materials, such as photography, video, and audio clips from the Yiddish Book Center’s collections.

Yidstock 2021 is made possible in part by the following endowed funds at the Yiddish Book Center: Joan A. Backman Memorial Concert Fund, established in memory of their daughter by Irving and Charlotte (z”l) Backman; Bernard and Reva Broder Memorial Fund for Yiddish Music Projects and Programs; Lorraine “Libby” Buch Memorial Fund for Yiddish Music Projects and Programs; Helen and Irving Sunshine Memorial Fund for Programs.