Eve Sicular
@evesicular.bsky.social
Drummer & bandleader: Isle of Klezbos /Metropolitan Klezmer
Writer, lecturer, archivist, translator specializing in research re: Yiddish cinema & related cultural topics
Studied Russian History & Literature at Harvard, honors thesis “Ideology & Montage”
Writer, lecturer, archivist, translator specializing in research re: Yiddish cinema & related cultural topics
Studied Russian History & Literature at Harvard, honors thesis “Ideology & Montage”
Next month Isle Klezbos plays Manhattan’s UWS! Some great seats are still left but this one might sell out soon. Hope to see you at Symphony Space, tell your NYC friends & family.
We’ll play Symphony Space on Thursday, Dec 11: Isle of Klezbos debut for the Revelry concert series on NYC’s Upper West Side! Tickets now www.symphonyspace.org/events/revel...
Revelry: Isle of Klezbos
Symphony Space is a performing arts center on the Upper West Side of Manhattan offering theater, film, literature, music, dance and family entertainment. Our mission is to connect art, ideas, and comm...
www.symphonyspace.org
November 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Next month Isle Klezbos plays Manhattan’s UWS! Some great seats are still left but this one might sell out soon. Hope to see you at Symphony Space, tell your NYC friends & family.
Isle of Klezbos sextet plays The Emelin Theater in Mamaroneck NY four weeks from this afternoon: Sunday, Dec 7 at 2pm. Klezmer, Yiddish swing & tango and more with great gals on the bandstand!Tell your Westchester family and friends emelin.org/event/isle-o...
Isle of Klezbos | Emelin Theatre
The soulful, fun-loving powerhouse all women's sextet fuses klezmer tradition with jazz, swing, and global influences.
emelin.org
November 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Isle of Klezbos sextet plays The Emelin Theater in Mamaroneck NY four weeks from this afternoon: Sunday, Dec 7 at 2pm. Klezmer, Yiddish swing & tango and more with great gals on the bandstand!Tell your Westchester family and friends emelin.org/event/isle-o...
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Newsom: "It's not about rule of law anymore. It's rule of Don. He's choosing which court decisions he agrees with. He's quite literally running an extortion racket. He's doing it with some of the most powerful corporate leaders. What does everything have in common? Tariffs. They're about leverage"
November 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Newsom: "It's not about rule of law anymore. It's rule of Don. He's choosing which court decisions he agrees with. He's quite literally running an extortion racket. He's doing it with some of the most powerful corporate leaders. What does everything have in common? Tariffs. They're about leverage"
Borscht Belt Film Fest screened anti-fascist 1976 “The Front” starring blacklistee Zero Mostel. On the movie talkback with me were Lita Slutsky Newman Moses (author of “The Red Hotel” re Ellenville’s Arrowhead Lodge) & her Popular Front historian son Daniel Moses. BBFF moderator/maven Jay Blotcher
November 6, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Borscht Belt Film Fest screened anti-fascist 1976 “The Front” starring blacklistee Zero Mostel. On the movie talkback with me were Lita Slutsky Newman Moses (author of “The Red Hotel” re Ellenville’s Arrowhead Lodge) & her Popular Front historian son Daniel Moses. BBFF moderator/maven Jay Blotcher
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I’m still shocked that stories like this which come out daily still get largely ignored. The most corrupt person to ever hold any public office in US history. I will keep posting them every day and try to amplify them, even when most media doesn’t care. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
October 30, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I’m still shocked that stories like this which come out daily still get largely ignored. The most corrupt person to ever hold any public office in US history. I will keep posting them every day and try to amplify them, even when most media doesn’t care. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
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UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio
There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.
Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.
There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.
Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.
November 4, 2025 at 4:14 AM
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio
There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.
Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.
There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.
Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.
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True that.
If the National Guard is really in D.C. to protect federal
property, they should probably have been at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. two days ago
property, they should probably have been at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. two days ago
October 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
True that.
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Why Bret Stephens Frightens Jews Like Me.
October 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Why Bret Stephens Frightens Jews Like Me.
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Factcheck: True.
October 23, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Factcheck: True.
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BREAKING: Jack Smith is insisting upon a public hearing if Congress wants to talk to him
Good. Why does the GOP want backroom secret questioning? What are Republicans afraid of?
Let the American people see & hear for themselves!
Good. Why does the GOP want backroom secret questioning? What are Republicans afraid of?
Let the American people see & hear for themselves!
October 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
BREAKING: Jack Smith is insisting upon a public hearing if Congress wants to talk to him
Good. Why does the GOP want backroom secret questioning? What are Republicans afraid of?
Let the American people see & hear for themselves!
Good. Why does the GOP want backroom secret questioning? What are Republicans afraid of?
Let the American people see & hear for themselves!
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The Ronald Reagan clip that Trump insists is a "fake." It's 100% genuine and attested to by the Reagan Library.
Here’s the original clip of Ronald Reagan from April 25, 1987, where he delivered a complete and total rebuke against tariffs. Trump's calling Reagan’s words here “FAKE” and “fraudulent.” They’re 100% real. And the original clip is actually far worse for Trump, as much is left out of the ad:
October 24, 2025 at 3:58 AM
The Ronald Reagan clip that Trump insists is a "fake." It's 100% genuine and attested to by the Reagan Library.
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Tragedy of the commons, a term typically used to describe the lack of incentive to care for a shared natural resource, applies equally to the unwillingness to tend to our threatened democracy.
Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America
October 24, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Tragedy of the commons, a term typically used to describe the lack of incentive to care for a shared natural resource, applies equally to the unwillingness to tend to our threatened democracy.
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Breaking: The Supreme Court is now officially considering taking up a case overturning same-sex marriage.
This is the first time in history the court has considered rolling back this right.
This is the first time in history the court has considered rolling back this right.
October 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Breaking: The Supreme Court is now officially considering taking up a case overturning same-sex marriage.
This is the first time in history the court has considered rolling back this right.
This is the first time in history the court has considered rolling back this right.
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Six months after ICE apprehended 47 people, including nine kids, in Hays County, Texas, County Judge Ruben Becerra says DHS has ignored his attempts to get answers: “We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”
How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force
Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng...
www.propublica.org
October 24, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Six months after ICE apprehended 47 people, including nine kids, in Hays County, Texas, County Judge Ruben Becerra says DHS has ignored his attempts to get answers: “We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”
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#Epstein #Ghislaine
The pedophiles are still out there.
Ghislaine deserves only the worst.
Come on “any excuse” Mike Johnson.
You can do better to secure America for little girls and boys.
flip.it/LSVAiR
The pedophiles are still out there.
Ghislaine deserves only the worst.
Come on “any excuse” Mike Johnson.
You can do better to secure America for little girls and boys.
flip.it/LSVAiR
‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother
In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...
flip.it
October 25, 2025 at 2:00 AM
#Epstein #Ghislaine
The pedophiles are still out there.
Ghislaine deserves only the worst.
Come on “any excuse” Mike Johnson.
You can do better to secure America for little girls and boys.
flip.it/LSVAiR
The pedophiles are still out there.
Ghislaine deserves only the worst.
Come on “any excuse” Mike Johnson.
You can do better to secure America for little girls and boys.
flip.it/LSVAiR
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This is located in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago, close to Fullerton and Sheffield. It's a densely populated area near DePaul University. I'm pleased to see the community standing up against these despicable individuals.
October 25, 2025 at 10:13 AM
This is located in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago, close to Fullerton and Sheffield. It's a densely populated area near DePaul University. I'm pleased to see the community standing up against these despicable individuals.
Yiddish NY FilmFest opener: Anti-fascist Oscar-winner “The Shop on Main Street” starring Ida Kaminska, icon of a Yiddish stage dynasty. Plus genius tango-erotic tale; bawdy silent accompanied live; & doc “Partisans of Vilna” — all on HUC big screen. Co-curators Josh Waletzky & me
yiddishnewyork.com
yiddishnewyork.com
October 25, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Yiddish NY FilmFest opener: Anti-fascist Oscar-winner “The Shop on Main Street” starring Ida Kaminska, icon of a Yiddish stage dynasty. Plus genius tango-erotic tale; bawdy silent accompanied live; & doc “Partisans of Vilna” — all on HUC big screen. Co-curators Josh Waletzky & me
yiddishnewyork.com
yiddishnewyork.com
Yiddish lullaby “Unter Beymer” performed by Isle of Klezbos (Melissa Fogarty sings) at Joe’s Pub NYC on June 24, 2025. This melody by Alexander Olshanetsky is back-engineered to resemble an aria from “Halka”: Both songs from Moishe Oysher’s 1940 Yiddish film “Overture to Glory” youtu.be/_f0DwUswAvw
Isle of Klezbos: "Unter Beymer" Yiddish lullaby, Joe's Pub NYC 2025
YouTube video by Eve Sicular
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October 21, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Yiddish lullaby “Unter Beymer” performed by Isle of Klezbos (Melissa Fogarty sings) at Joe’s Pub NYC on June 24, 2025. This melody by Alexander Olshanetsky is back-engineered to resemble an aria from “Halka”: Both songs from Moishe Oysher’s 1940 Yiddish film “Overture to Glory” youtu.be/_f0DwUswAvw
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A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.
When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.
When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.
Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents
‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said
www.independent.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 3:54 AM
A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.
When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.
When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.
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Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”
• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked
Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc
• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked
Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc
October 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”
• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked
Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc
• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked
Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc
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looks interesting, I registered. the author is one of the original klezmer revival dudes of the 70s & interviewed a lot of old timers when they were still around.
Book Talk - The Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City - American Jewish Historical Society
The Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City offers a new look at over a century of Yiddish culture in New York City. Author Henry H. Sapoznik focuses on theater, music, architecture, crime, Blac...
ajhs.org
October 16, 2025 at 1:38 PM
looks interesting, I registered. the author is one of the original klezmer revival dudes of the 70s & interviewed a lot of old timers when they were still around.
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this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
October 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
Earlybird $10 discount this holiday weekend only: Isle of Klezbos plays Westchester’s Emelin Theatre on Sunday afternoon, Dec 7th. Use code FALL10 (til noon this Tuesday). Tell your friends! We’ll bring our all-gal sextet to this Mamaroneck NY stage 2pm all ages. Tickets: emelin.org/event/isle-o...
October 11, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Earlybird $10 discount this holiday weekend only: Isle of Klezbos plays Westchester’s Emelin Theatre on Sunday afternoon, Dec 7th. Use code FALL10 (til noon this Tuesday). Tell your friends! We’ll bring our all-gal sextet to this Mamaroneck NY stage 2pm all ages. Tickets: emelin.org/event/isle-o...
Sun, Nov 2 “The Front” screens at Borscht Belt Film Fest www.borschtbeltfilmfest.org/films2025 Zero Mostel’s McCarthy-era showbiz role resembles his real life story in a Catskills resort episode. I’m a guest panelist for this all-too-relevant, brilliant movie also ft Herschel Bernardi & Woody Allen
October 3, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Sun, Nov 2 “The Front” screens at Borscht Belt Film Fest www.borschtbeltfilmfest.org/films2025 Zero Mostel’s McCarthy-era showbiz role resembles his real life story in a Catskills resort episode. I’m a guest panelist for this all-too-relevant, brilliant movie also ft Herschel Bernardi & Woody Allen