Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
In support of Chicago-based klezmer band Upshtat Zingerai bringing Yiddish tunes and dancing to the Chicago Humanities Spring Festival, the creative partners behind the Jewish Museum of Chicago sat down with podcast host Alisa Rosenthal to preview the upcoming event. They chat artistic process, visions for having a future physical space, and how the museum project was started to fill a void in the Chicago arts scene as a hub for Jewish artists and community members.
Tickets to Upshtat Zingerai in performance Sunday, Apr 27 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm CT at the Athenaeum Center for Thought & Culture available here.
Explore the rest of the Lakeview Day 2025 events here.
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PHOTO: Maya Kosover, Gabriel Chalfin-Piney-González, and Alisa Rosenthal talk over Zoom.
Learn more about the Jewish Museum of Chicago
Follow @jewishmuseumchicago on Instagram
Follow @upshtatzingerai on Instagram
Episode photo of Grace Gittelman, a Jewish Museum of Chicago 2024 Artist Fellow. Photo by Ricardo E. Adame.
Edited and mixed by Alisa Rosenthal
Podcast story editing by Alexandra Quinn
Additional assistance from Kaity O’Reilly
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In support of Chicago-based klezmer band Upshtat Zingerai bringing Yiddish tunes and dancing to the Chicago Humanities Spring Festival, the creative partners behind the Jewish Museum of Chicago sat down with podcast host Alisa Rosenthal to preview the upcoming event. They chat artistic process, visions for having a future physical space, and how the museum project was started to fill a void in the Chicago arts scene as a hub for Jewish artists and community members.
Tickets to Upshtat Zingerai in performance Sunday, Apr 27 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm CT at the Athenaeum Center for Thought & Culture available here.
Explore the rest of the Lakeview Day 2025 events here.
Subscribe to the podcast • Let us know what you think by taking the short survey
SHOW NOTES:
Read the podcast transcript.
PHOTO: Maya Kosover, Gabriel Chalfin-Piney-González, and Alisa Rosenthal talk over Zoom.
Learn more about the Jewish Museum of Chicago
Follow @jewishmuseumchicago on Instagram
Follow @upshtatzingerai on Instagram
Episode photo of Grace Gittelman, a Jewish Museum of Chicago 2024 Artist Fellow. Photo by Ricardo E. Adame.
Edited and mixed by Alisa Rosenthal
Podcast story editing by Alexandra Quinn
Additional assistance from Kaity O’Reilly
Donate now to support programs like this.
Explore upcoming events.
Instagram • YouTube • TikTok • Twitter • Facebook • LinkedIn
RNNY2VBKAJUXFLHO
![Comedians Maria Bamford and Aparna Nancherla [CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YxXKZp6jyhE/mqdefault.jpg "Comedians Maria Bamford and Aparna Nancherla [CC]
The brilliant and frenetic comedian Maria Bamford has always wanted to belong. In her new book, Sure, I’ll Join Your Cult, she shares her stories of navigating through the wild world of show business, psychiatric institutions, and everything in between while on her quest to fit in. Bamford will sit down at Chicago Humanities with superstar comedianAparna Nancherla, author of Unreliable Narrator and expert on impostor syndrome, to get real about relationships, mental illness, the trials of stand-up comedy, and both of their books. Chicago’s own Greta Johnsen (of WBEZ’s Nerdette podcast) will moderate this conversation between two daring voices, as they take audiences on a journey of self-acceptance, belonging, and hilarity.
This program is presented as part of the Roger & Elaine Haydock Humor Series.
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