Co-presented by Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History
Directed by Keith Mitchell
*Exhibition Hours/Admission
- Friday, November 15
10 AM – 4 PM - Saturday, November 16
10 AM – 7:30 PM - Friday, November 22
10 AM – 4 PM - Saturday, November 23
10 AM – 7:30 PM
*VITEBSK is included with admission to any Fall Fest 2024 event, including general museum admission.
About the Project
Introducing Mostly Kosher’s music video for VITEBSK, the first track on their album This World is Yours. Featuring marionettes of band members and villagers, VITEBSK is a snapshot of life in the small town prior to World War II. Vitebsk, as experienced through the townspeople-puppets, restores a joy to the memory of a region once teeming with Jewish life and culture. The imagery in the music video was influenced by the materials (largely recycled cardboard and reclaimed wood), as well as the artistry of famed painter Marc Chagall, who grew up in Vitebsk.
Mostly Kosher, the acclaimed Klezmer/Rock band, radically reconstructs Judaic and American cultural music through ravenous klezmer beats and arresting Yiddish refrains. The band is a musical feast that explodes into a global food-fight of Jazz, Latin, Rock, and Folk. In response to the poetry and folk music of Judaic roots, their original voice resounds with themes of social justice, human dignity, and mutual understanding. Led by frontman Leeav Sofer, one of Jewish Journal’s “30 under 30” most accomplished professionals in the Los Angeles Jewish diaspora, Mostly Kosher is comprised of some of the highest regarded Los Angeles musicians: violinist Janice Mautner Markham, drummer Eric Hagstrom, bassist Adam Levy, accordionist Gee Rabe, guitarist Nadav Peled, trombonist Bob Lawrence, and Ben Tevik on clarinet and sax.
