Di Shkatulkeles
Poetry matures slowly. It exists somewhere between prose and song, between prayer and counting rhyme—between a quick jot amidst the hustle and bustle of everyday life and the conscious, perhaps even useless, beauty of words as a quiet protest against that very everyday existence. Poetry is what remains.
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This is precisely how Marina Frenk felt about Katerina Kuznetsova's poems when she discovered them. Katerina Kuznetsova is a Yiddish poet, teacher, and cultural activist in Berlin. Her texts, published in journals such as "Yiddishland," "Di goldene pave," and "Birobidzhaner shtern," bring fresh energy and new perspectives to the contemporary Yiddish literary scene.
The poems, written in Yiddish, inspired Marina Frenk to create her own melodies, which she further developed with Lisa Hoppe and Paul Brody. Hoppe also set other texts to music – resulting in a song cycle that blends ballad and wit, contradiction and jazz, with hints of klezmer, improvised spoken word performance, and classical song.
Together, Di Shkatulkeles – Paul Brody, Christian Dawid, Marina Frenk, Lisa Hoppe, and Daniel Stawinski – embark on a playful, musical journey into the heart of contemporary Yiddish poetry. Into what remains, or has been almost forgotten – and yet can be remembered, learned, and reinvented time and again.
Vegn paradoksn fun tsayt!
Doors open at 7:30 p.m.
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Dates
April 2026
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