Binyumen Schaechter
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Binyumen Schaechter (1963-) is a Yiddish composer and performer, as well as conductor of the Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus (JPPC) and the Pripetshik Singers, an ensemble of native-Yiddish-speaking children. They have performed at Lincoln Center, Shea Stadium
, Synagogue
s, and JCC
's across the Northeast. He was a camper at the Yiddish-speaking, Jewish Labour Bund-run Camp Hemshekh. At Camp Hemshekh, he would often play the piano in plays, musicals, and when they sang.
As a performer, he has traveled across North America
and in Paris
in his one-man show, The Shtetl Comes To Life and together with his daughter Reyna Schaechter in From Kinahora To Kuni-Ayland, his musical revue about the Jewish experience in America
.
. His father, Mordkhe Schaechter
, was an influential linguist of the Yiddish language; his aunt, Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman
is a Yiddish poet and songwriter; his cousin, Itzik Gottesman, is an editor of The Yiddish Forward and the Tsukunft, and a scholar of Yiddish folklore. His sister Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath
is a Yiddish poet, sister Rukhl Schaechter is a journalist with the Yiddish Forward, and sister Eydl Reznik teaches Yiddish among the ultra-Orthodox community in Tsfat, Israel. Schaechter and his sisters all maintain Yiddish-speaking homes.
Shea Stadium
William A. Shea Municipal Stadium, usually shortened to Shea Stadium or just Shea , was a stadium in the New York City borough of Queens, in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park. It was the home baseball park of Major League Baseball's New York Mets from 1964 to 2008...
, Synagogue
Synagogue
A synagogue is a Jewish house of prayer. This use of the Greek term synagogue originates in the Septuagint where it sometimes translates the Hebrew word for assembly, kahal...
s, and JCC
JCC
JCC may refer to:* John Cooper Clarke, Mancunian punk-poet* China Basin Heliport, San Francisco, CA, USA * Jackson Community College* Jamestown Community College* Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research...
's across the Northeast. He was a camper at the Yiddish-speaking, Jewish Labour Bund-run Camp Hemshekh. At Camp Hemshekh, he would often play the piano in plays, musicals, and when they sang.
As a performer, he has traveled across North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
and in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
in his one-man show, The Shtetl Comes To Life and together with his daughter Reyna Schaechter in From Kinahora To Kuni-Ayland, his musical revue about the Jewish experience in America
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
.
Works
- Naked Boys Singing
- Pets! (Dramatic Publishing)
- That's Life! (Outer Critics Circle nomination)
- Too Jewish? (nominated: Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards)
- Double Identity (Folksbiene Off-Broadway Theatre)
- Dinner at Eight (BMI's Jerry Bock Award)
- Provided the translations for the first-ever DVD with Yiddish subtitles, The Life And Times Of Hank Greenberg.
- Out of the Blue
- The Wild Swans
- Hangin Out (Macha Theater in LA)
Family
Schaechter is a member of a leading family in Yiddish language and cultural studiesSchaechter-Gottesman
The Schaechter-Gottesman family is a leading family in Yiddish language and cultural studies.Members include:*Lifshe Schaechter-Widman*Mordkhe Schaechter - Yiddish linguist, teacher, and writer...
. His father, Mordkhe Schaechter
Mordkhe Schaechter
Itsye Mordkhe Schaechter was a leading Yiddish linguist, as well as a writer and educator who spent a lifetime studying, standardizing and teaching the language. Dr...
, was an influential linguist of the Yiddish language; his aunt, Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman
Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman
Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman is a Yiddish poet and songwriter.-Biography:She was born in Vienna into an Eastern-European, Yiddish-speaking family; her family left for Czernowitz, Ukraine and settled there when Schaechter-Gottesman was a young child...
is a Yiddish poet and songwriter; his cousin, Itzik Gottesman, is an editor of The Yiddish Forward and the Tsukunft, and a scholar of Yiddish folklore. His sister Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath
Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath
Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath is a Yiddish-language poet who was born in The Bronx, New York, USA. She grew up in a Yiddish-speaking home and attended Yiddish schools as a child. She began writing poetry, much of which was published in the journals Yugntruf and Afn Shvel, in 1980...
is a Yiddish poet, sister Rukhl Schaechter is a journalist with the Yiddish Forward, and sister Eydl Reznik teaches Yiddish among the ultra-Orthodox community in Tsfat, Israel. Schaechter and his sisters all maintain Yiddish-speaking homes.