CPR Performance Archive

GIVING VOICE 11 - BENTE KAHAN (NORWAY) [April 2009]
SONGS FROM THE GHETTO

SUNDAY 19 APRIL, 4.30PM

Bente Kahan is a Jewish-Norwegian performing artist, whose production company Teater Dybbuk - Oslo, aims to convey Jewish-European culture and history through drama and music. She also appears alone with her guitar or collaborates with European klezmer bands such as Gjertrud’s Gypsy Orchestra (Norway), Di Gojim (The Netherlands), Jowel Klezmorim (Germany), "Sabbath Hela Veckan" (Sweden) and Chudoba (Poland).

Bente tours internationally and is also repeatedly called upon to perform in connection with official commemorations paying homage to the victims of the Holocaust. Her work unfailingly receives critical praise by newspapers and audiences alike.

In May 2005, the Jewish Community in Wroclaw, Poland, appointed Bente Kahan as the artistic director of the Jewish Cultural and Educational Center of the White Stork Synagogue, and she is overseeing the renovation of the synagogue.

Bente Kahan’s concert Songs from the Ghetto in 66th Anniversary of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

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