Ilya Shneyveys  - Archives In Focus

The Klezmer Institute

A conversation with Ilya Shneyveys presented by the Klezmer Institute.

In his book A Time to Gather, Jason Lustig describes the creation of Jewish archives as constituting a “concrete attempt to hold tight to the past in times of fast and far-reaching change, and [they] manifest a broader sensibility of gathering together the scattered sources and resources of Jewish life by bringing order to the past. In this series, we will meet archivists and scholars who are deeply connected to archives that were wellsprings for the klezmer revival, and which continue to inform new generations of practitioners in Ashkenazic expressive culture. Ilya Shneyveys is an international performer, accordionist and multi-instrumentalist, teacher, composer, arranger and producer of contemporary Jewish music, from klezmer and Yiddish folk song to fusion and experimental projects. He is an artistic director of the German-Israeli student exchange project The Caravan Orchestra, for which he was awarded the 2017 Shimon-Peres-Prize. Ilya is artistic director of the Yiddish psychedelic rock band Forshpil (LV-RU-DE), and received the 2014 RUTH World Music Award as part of the Yiddish-Bavarian fusion project Alpen Klezmer (DE). He tours with the klezmer-balkan band Dobranotch (RU), and received the Eiserne Eversteiner Preis in 2017. He has performed and collaborated with Opa! (RU), The Klezmatics (US), Daniel Kahn and the Painted Bird (DE) among others. He is a co-founder of Berlin’s Neukölln Klezmer Sessions and Shtetl Neukölln festival, and a long-time faculty member at Yiddish Summer Weimar.

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