Tears, Joy, and Hope: An Educational Salon-Style Concert with Harriet Bennish

During a time when millions of Jews were facing death, music found a way into their lives. They wrote poetry and composed music as they lived, fought and died in the ghettos across Europe. When Harriet first came across these rarely performed songs, she made herself a promise that she would do whatever she could to help this music live on – not let it be forgotten in the rush of modern life. This promise has become her passion. She set out to learn all that she could about the songs, the Jewish poets and composers who created them and to share that knowledge. The music tells the story of ever…