Yiddish Songs Locked in the Closet
EX408_3206 Bente Kahan, Jewish-Norwegian performing artist, talks about her father's relationship to song, and about a very special book he has.
View ArticlePerforming Mordechai Gebirtig at Yad Vashem
EX408_3207 Bente Kahan, Jewish-Norwegian performing artist, on the poet Mordechai Gebirtig and the experience of performing Gebirtig's work at Yad Vashem in Israel.
View Article“How Will We Remember the Jews of Europe?” Bente Kahan on the Holocaust in...
EX408_3208 Bente Kahan, Jewish-Norwegian performing artist, describes why it's important for there to be Jewish institutions on European soil in addition to the ones in the United States.
View ArticleBente Kahan and Jidisz far Alle
EX408_3209 Bente Kahan, Jewish-Norwegian performing artist, explains her "Jidisz Far Alle" project.
View ArticleBente Kahan Sings Reyzele by Mordechai Gebirtig
EX408_3210 Bente Kahan, Jewish-Norwegian performing artist, sings 'Reyzele' by Mordechai Gebirtig.
View Article“Above the Town”: A Yiddish-Norwegian Cabaret
EX408_3211 Bente Kahan, Jewish-Norwegian performing artist, on the Yiddish-Norwegian Cabaret in 1983 that brought her back to the theater.
View ArticleBente Kahan Sings the Yiddish Song that Reminds Her Most of her Father
EX408_3213 Bente Kahan, Jewish-Norwegian performing artist, sings a Yiddish song that reminds her of her father, and explains what about the song speaks to her.
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