Location: Former Synagogue

6 pm: Insights: A Look at the Synagogue’s Space and Exhibitions Martha Keil, Scientific Director, Former Synagogue St. Pölten

7 pm: Opening of the festival by the organisers
Musical welcome by Trio Kroke

7:30 pm: Opening concert
Sharon Kam, clarinet, and Matan Porat, piano 
From the Romantic to Broadway
Virtuoso Jewish chamber music
World premiere

Admission: 21.00 EUR/day
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Location: Bühne im Hof

7:30 pm: Kroke 
“From Kazimierz to the World”

Admission: 28.00 EUR/day
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Location: Former Synagogue

11 am: Michel Godard Quartet feat. Nataša Mirković
Encounters with Splendour
A Journey Through the Hebrew Alphabet
World premiere

2 pm: Insights: A Look at the Synagogue’s Space and Exhibitions
Martha Keil, Director of Research, Former Synagogue St. Pölten

3:30 pm: Jewish Tradition and the Feminine
Introductory lecture | Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek, exhibition curator, also of the exhibition “The Female Side of God”

4 pm: Sveta Kundish and Patrick Farrell
“The Divine and the Personal” 
Liturgical music and Yiddish poetry 
World premiere

6:30 pm: Salomone Rossi and His Time
A Jewish Composer Around 1600
Introductory talk | Johann Kneihs, music editor at Ö1

7 pm: Ensemble Cinquecento 
“Music of Two Religions”
Compositions by Salomone Rossi and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
World premiere

Admission: EUR 38,00/day
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Location: Former Synagogue

4:30 pm: The Jewish History of Odessa: The Turbulent 20th Century
Introductory talk | Benjamin Grilj, historian, Institute for Jewish History in Austria 

5 pm: Andrej Prozorov Trio
Andrej Prozorov, Christian Bakanic, Walter Singer
“On the Black Sea”
A musical memorial and reflection on Jewish (family) history in Odessa
World premiere


Location: Festspielhaus St. Pölten (large hall / Grosser Saal)

7:30 pm: PHACE. Nacho de Paz: The City Without Jews
PHACE ensemble, conductor: Nacho de Paz 
The City Without Jews

Silent film by Hans Karl Breslauer (1924) based on a novel by Hugo Bettauer (1922) with live music composed by Olga Neuwirth

A Tangente St. Pölten – Festival for Contemporary Culture event in cooperation with the Festspielhaus St. Pölten as part of Jewish Weekends

Admission: 32.00 EUR/day
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Location: Former Synagogue

4 pm: Insights: A Look at the Synagogue’s Space and Exhibitions
Martha Keil, Scientific, Former Synagogue St. Pölten

5 pm: Shelly Kupferberg
“Isidor”: Tracing a Family History in Vienna
Narrative and reading 

7:30 pm: Shoah and Survival in Poland: The “Silent Tears” Project
Introduction | Dan Rosenberg, producer and initiator of the project, speaks about its background and realisation

8 pm: “Silent Tears”: The Last Yiddish Tango 
Payadora ensemble with Olga Mieleszczuk and Lenka Lichtenberg, overall director and speaker 
Austrian premiere

Admission: 32.00 EUR/day
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Location: Former Synagogue

11 am: Isabel Frey and Benjy Fox-Rosen
Mentshn hert zikh ayn. People, listen!
Yiddish songs from the archives of North America
World premiere

3:30 pm: “Cohen, Winehouse, Zimmerman” Jewishness in pop music
Introductory talk | Johann Kneihs with Michael Freund, media scholar and author

4 pm: Die Cohen-Gschwista von der Bre 
Leonard Cohen on Praterstrasse
Adaptations and songs in Viennese dialect

7 pm: KLEZZFOUR
Maciej Golebiowski, Alexander and Konstantin Wladigeroff, Benjy Fox-Rosen

“Hallelujah – Cohen and More!”
Leonard Cohen’s 90th birthday: a Klezmer tribute
World premiere

Admission: 38.00 EUR/day
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