Name: Celebrate Yiddish Culture
Start: 2026-04-25T15:30:00-04:00
Location: Congregation Tikkun v'Or, Ithaca NY

3:30-5 pm Afternoon Song Workshop: Learn Yiddish music and culture from leading experts in the field (see below).
7:30-9 pm Evening concert with the Strauss/Warschauer Duo and Pete Rushefsky.
Register for one or both events.
Tickets are $10 per person for each event.
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Other options:
Contributor: $50 (includes 2 tickets to both events)
Sponsor: $250 (includes 4 tickets to both events)
ABOUT THE FEATURED ARTISTS:
Deborah Strauss is an internationally acclaimed klezmer violinist who has been performing, recording, and teaching worldwide for more than 30 years. She is one-halfof the Strauss/ Warschauer Duo with her husband, Cantor Jeff Warschauer, was a long-time member of the Klezmer Conservatory Band and was featured in the Emmy Award-winning film, Itzhak Perlman: In the Fiddler’s House . A highly regarded Yiddish dancer and an award-winning educator, Strauss taught for 20 years at Yiddish cultural schools in Manhattan and on Long Island. She has served as Education Director of Reconstructionist Congregation Kehilat Shalom in Belle Mead, New Jersey, and is the Yiddish Culture Organizer for the new Arbeter Ring/ Workers Circle Sixty Plus initiative, Zol Zayn Yidish! Let there Be Yiddish! As a performer and teacher, Strauss is a mainstay at the Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow, KlezKanada, Yiddish Summer Weimar, and Trip to Yiddishland.
Cantor Jeff Warschauer is a hazzan, educator and highly accomplished musician with a sweet, soulful voice and a friendly, engaging presence. Ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary, Jeff is a faculty member of Columbia University and JTS and has served congregations in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maine and Vermont. Jeff is also internationally renowned as a leading klezmer mandolinist, an innovator in the development of klezmer guitar style, a Yiddish and Hebrew singer, and a skillful and inspirational educator. One half of the Strauss/Warschauer Duo, he was a longtime member of the Klezmer Conservatory Band and has been featured in concert and on recordings with Itzhak Perlman, Joel Grey and the late Theodore Bikel. Jeff is also a Founding Artistic Director of KlezKanada.
Pete Rushefsky is a leading performer, composer and researcher of the Jewish tsimbl (cimbalom or hammered dulcimer), Rushefsky tours and records internationally with violinist Itzhak Perlman as part of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, and collaborates with a number of leading figures in the contemporary klezmer scene. Since 2006 he has served as Executive Director of the Center for Traditional Music and Dance, one of the nation’s leading organizations dedicated to sustaining and presenting diverse immigrant music traditions from around the world. A founder of the annual Yiddish New York festival, Rushefsky curated the Yiddish program at the 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival and has authored a number of articles and books on traditional music and culture. He won the Jewish Music Institute (IMJ Sao Paulo’s) 2022 Bubbe Award for best new klezmer composition.</https:>