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Music of the Yiddish Silver Screen
Last February, bandleader/film scholar Eve Sicular presented her multimedia program at Harvard University's Center for Jewish Studies in Cambridge MA

We are honored that music from Metropolitan Klezmer (our version of Yiddish instrumental tune Der Gasn Nigun from our debut disc Yiddish For Travelers) is the first cue on the soundtrack of Ralph Arlyck’s documentary feature I Like It Here premiered at the New York Jewish Film Festival in Jan. 2023.

Bandleader/film scholar Eve Sicular was awarded a Wallis Annenberg Helix Fellowship Alumni Grant for New Yiddish Culture, to create a new version of Farlangen from Henekh Kon's 1937 Dybbuk soundtrack.

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Ulmer's Yiddish Films

Eve Sicular's full exploration of director Edgar Ulmer's "Canon of Cinema Contagion: Gothic Yiddish Plague Meets TB Screen Crusade" now up at Yiddishkayt.org

A new klezmer tradition takes root in Brooklyn’s Prospect Parkarticle in the Jewish Telegraphic Agency with a few words from US Klezmer scene veteran, Eve Sicular.

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Traveling Show Surprising Finds Mazel Means Good Luck Yiddish For Travelers

Metropolitan Klezmer: Mosaic Persuasion — featuring guest artists from the all-female Isle of Klezbos. Nearly a full hour of eclectic exuberance, including lesser-known gems adapted from Yiddish film soundtracks and theater classics, plus a lush six-page booklet with complete Yiddish lyrics, transliteration and English translation, and colorful photos of both bands.

  • OutMusic Award Outstanding Producer: 2002
  • Jewish Week Top Ten, 2001

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  1. Kalarash/Dancing With Chairs
  2. Brandwein in the Lotus Groove
  3. Northern Doyna/An Alter Nigun [An Old Tune]/Abi Gezunt [As Long As You're Healthy]
  4. Samovar Freylekhs
  5. Mayn Rue plats [My Resting Place]
  6. In Laws’ Taxim/Mekhutonim Tants [In-Laws' Dance]
  7. Muzikalisher Tango
  8. Humphrey Bulgar
  9. Lomir Zikh Iberbetn [Let's Make Up]
  10. Medyatsiner Waltz
  11. East(ern) Village Hanuka
  12. Uskudar Taxim/Terk in Amerike
  13. Unter di Khurves fun Poyln [Under the Ruins of Poland]
  14. Rifka’s Dream
  15. Szol a Kakas Mar [The Rooster Crows]
  16. Araber Tants [Arab Dance]