Open Mic


Our Yiddish Open Mic Café runs approximately once a month. These online events draw participants and listeners from across the Yiddish-speaking world to share songs, poetry, stories and more in Yiddish, with Yiddish and English texts on the screen. Details of our next event are below:


85th Yiddish Open Mic Café

Sunday 11 October (on Zoom at 16:00 UK/8:00 PST/11:00 EST/12:00 ART/17:00 CET/18:00 IST)


To perform or join the audience, please register here.


We invite old and new performers to participate, on the theme or not. Please send your presentations of up to 6 minutes in PowerPoint (preferably) or Word, in both Yiddish (oysyes if possible, or transliteration) and English translation to openmic@yiddishcafe.com by Monday 28 September.

We are happy to translate your material or transcribe it in oysyes. We will need at least a week, please. 

Recordings of previous sessions can be found on our YouTube page.

If you have any questions or would like to join our mailing list, contact us at openmic@yiddishcafe.com 


We look forward to seeing you soon!