The Irish Jewish Museum invites you to a very special event
Silent Tears, The Last Yiddish Tango
The award-winning Yiddish music project based on Holocaust poetry
Sunday 18th October at 3:00 pm
Silent Tears is an award-winning concert program based on poems and testimonies of women who survived the Holocaust – The album reached #1 on World Music Charts Europe (becoming the first Yiddish album ever to do so)
Featuring Lenka Lichtenberg on Vocals and piano
Dan Rosenberg as Narrator
Join us for an exclusive Dublin performance as Lenka Lichtenberg will perform songs from her award-winning albums Thieves of Dreams + Silent Tears, the Last Yiddish Tango and other songs written during the Holocaust.
‘Silent Tears, The Last Yiddish Tango’ is a concert program based on testimonies of women from Poland who survived the Holocaust. It won Germany’s Ruth Weltmusikpreis (World Music Prize), a Canadian Folk Music Award, best album at the Ontario Folk Music Awards, and reached #1 on World Music Charts Europe. The programme is presented by Dan Rosenberg.
Thieves of Dreams is based on poetry that Lenka’s grandmother wrote while incarcerated at the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp, which won a Juno Award in 2023 (Canada’s top music prize).
The Silent Tears project began when Dr. Paula David launched a poetry project to help Holocaust survivors deal with long term trauma from horrific crimes such as sexual violence, human experimentation and forced sterilization – some of which they hadn’t even told their own families. Silent Tears also includes a number of works based on Holocaust survivor Molly Applebaum’s diary and memoir, Buried Words. She’s now 95 and lives in Toronto. As a child, she was buried underground in a box on a farm in Dąbrowa, Poland.
From inspiring songs about survival to mournful laments, this award-winning programme showcases songs inspired by the poetry of women who are Holocaust survivors and conveys an almost indescribable depth of emotion rarely sung about.
*Silent Tears was named on more than 20 “best albums of 2023” lists and was featured in a live concert on the BBC.
Bookings essential: email info@jewishmuseum.ie for reservations. A link will be sent for payment. All tickets for the event must be purchased in advance.
