A Taste of Sephardim
Gallery 168
(located at Level 1, around the corner from bookstore)

Tu Que Bivas
Photography by Becky Behar

Becky Behar creates personal narratives that discuss motherhood, domesticity and the link between generations.  Tu Que Bivas encapsulates a Sephardic blessing to thrive in life, stemming from Behar’s family's journey of migration and cultural preservation. Through her lens, Behar explores the continuity of Sephardic traditions within her family, contemplating their endurance and the legacy passed down to her daughter.

Conversations with Traditional Music
Ira Klein & Beth Bahia Cohen

Three 20 minute sets will be performed throughout the evening:

5:40 - 6:00 pm
Set 1 :

1. Hassbeni - Algerian pop song.
2. Por La Puerta - Ladino love song, Turkish origin.
3. La Komida - Ladino song, mother and daughter conversation.
4. Haeer - Israeli song about migration and how the city you grew up in always lives in you.
5. Cantica De Ajugar

7:00 - 7:20 pm
Set 2:

1. Catalan Mahzor - The Hare Chase
2. Catalan Mahzor - A Box of Sweets 
3. Parfum de Gitane - Tunisian instrumental composition
4. Catalan Mahzor - Mirror Dance
Catalan Mahzor music out of Ira's original project inspired by a medieval Jewish Spanish manuscript, weaving a story about Jewish spiritual redemption.

7:40 - 8:00 pm
Set 3:

1. Una Tarde - Ladino love song.
2. Husidel in Em - Klezmer instrumental.
3. National Hora - Klezmer tune. 
4. Azkir Hasade - Piyyut from the Turkish Jewish tradition.
5. Gulzar Peserv - Piyyut from the Turkish Jewish tradition.

Ira Klein (guitar) and Beth Bahia Cohen (violin and yayli tanbur) blend original and traditional music. Ira and Beth's repertoire is inspired by a variety of Middle-Eastern and North-African Jewish music traditions (such as Ladino, Moroccan and Syrian), as well as by contemporary, cross-cultural musical styles.

• Ira Klein is an award-winning guitarist and composer from Jerusalem, Israel. Inspired by his upbringing surrounded by multiple musical traditions, he aspires to create music that is both deeply rooted and contemporary. An alumni of Berklee College of Music, Ira has performed at Harvard, the MFA, Mass MOCA, and Mount Auburn Cemetery. He frequently collaborates across disciplines, most recently with choreographers Liz Walker and Rachel Linsky.

• Beth Bahia Cohen is a violinist of Syrian Jewish and Russian Jewish heritage. Inspired at a young age by the sounds she heard at family gatherings, she went on to study with master musicians from Hungary, Greece, Turkey, and the Middle East. Beth has performed alongside Led Zeppelin, Itzhak Perlman, and Phillip Glass. Beth is on the Faculty at Berklee College of Music.