SARATOGA SPRINGS — Saratoga Jewish Community Arts presents its eighth annual Matthew M. Neugroschel Jewish Storytelling Program at 7 p.m. on Feb. 27, held virtually on Zoom with a generous grant from the Jewish Federation of Northeast NY and the sponsorship of Temple Sinai.
For the Jewish people, storytelling has been a means of defining the Jewish identity, the ethnic distinctiveness as a Jew. To hear a Jewish story is to share the humor, wisdom and angst, earthiness, and spirituality of an ancient and thoroughly modern, diverse, and irrepressible group of people bearing an extraordinary history. Telling stories is the way Jews share historical happenings and create a cultural history.
Annually the program brings together a group of talented storytellers. This year’s storytellers include Shawn Banner, Sylvia Bloom, Beth Sabo Novik, Ben Russell, and Martina Zobel.
This popular Annual program was renamed in 2021 in memory of Matthew M. Neugroschel, a frequent contributor to Saratoga Jewish Community Arts and the Saratoga Jewish Cultural Festival and a most creative and remarkable storyteller, whose life was cut short in 2020 at the age of 49.
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