Finsternish

Identifier
irn600215
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • RG-91.2153
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • Diane Cypkin (Performer)
  • Avrom Cypkin (Performer)

Biographical History

Diane Cypkin (b. 1948) is the daughter of the Kovno ghetto songwriter Abraham (Avrom) Cypkin. Born in a Displaced Persons camp near Munich, Germany, she immigrated to the United States with her parents in 1949. Cypkin earned a Ph.D. in Performance Studies at New York University, and is Professor of Media, Communications, and Visual Arts at Pace University. A gifted performer specializing in Yiddish repertoire, Cypkin has appeared in Broadway productions and sung on commercially-released recordings. She interprets several of her father's ghetto songs on the CD Hidden History: Songs of the Kovno Ghetto, issued by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1997. (Source: https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/collections/oral-histories/interviews/woh-fi-0000453/diane-cypkin-2013)

Scope and Content

Diane Cypkin performs "Fisternish" (“Darkness”), written by her father Abraham Cypkin while living in the Kovno Ghetto.

Genre

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