Malasartes | Kleyn Kabaret or how to revive and update Yiddish through music

Interview by Alain Brunet
Genres and styles : Eastern European / Jazz / Jewish Traditional

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In Yiddish, Kleyn Kabaret means “little cabaret”. Before the Holocaust, Yiddish was the language of Europe’s Jewish communities, some 6 million of whose speakers were exterminated by Nazi forces. Inevitably, Yiddish also bore the brunt of the Shoah, and the language declined precipitously after 1945. Today, Hasidic communities still speak the language… But other young, progressive Jews, who have nothing to do with religious fundamentalism, are working to revive and even update it. Some are doing so through song and music, as is the case with singer Antonia Hayward and her colleagues, including multi-instrumentalist and singer Damian Nisenson. Launched in 2019, Kleyn Cabaret has just recorded De mémoire, a second album on the Malasartes label, whose new material will be performed at a show at the Sala Rossa on Thursday, November 7. That’s why Alain Brunet spoke to Antonia Hayward.

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