The Shanghai Suite will use music, storytelling, and multimedia performance to illuminate a lesser-known chapter of Jewish history and the resilience of Jewish communities in times of displacement, offering audiences a powerful and memorable way to experience a remarkable chapter of Jewish and global history. The program explores the migration of approximately 20,000 Jews to Shanghai during World War II and their lives there during and after the war, blending European Jewish musical traditions with Chinese music of the period and other sounds that reference the wartime migration. It also brings us to the plight of today’s refugees. 

EPK (download coming soon)