JMI Ot Azoy! Faculty 2009
modified 7 February 2009
Shura Lipovsky (Amsterdam: Yiddish song)
This is Shura's fourth year as Director of Yiddish song school. She has
a an incredible folk voice and when she sings you just cant help smiling
- she is very magnetic. Shura is a great 
teacher,
passing on the Yiddish song tradition aurally giving her students a deep
insight into Eastern European Jewish song traditions.
Shura Lipovsky is one of the best-known singers of Yiddish song in Europe. She has performed and taught also in Russia, the USA and Canada. She studied singing at the Rotterdam conservatory and she had a folk dance education, after which she specialised in Judaic mysticism and dance. She is widely appreciated for her teaching of the Yiddish song repertoire combined with contextual study of the history and background of the composers and poets. She conducts masterclasses for singers and workshops in Chasidic dances, songs and stories.
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