Toronto Jewish Folk Choir
A century of Yiddish song.
Founded by Jewish immigrant workers, the choir has carried the mame-loshn in music for a hundred years, songs of labour, resistance, and joy.
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A century on stage.
1948“The Jewish Folk Choir with Paul Robeson”, Massey Hall concert poster, 1948
1990sThe Toronto Jewish Folk Choir performs at the annual Warsaw Ghetto Uprising commemoration at the Winchevsky Centre, 1990s
2010sUJPO community members, alumni of the Toronto Jewish Folk Choir, perform at a City of Toronto ceremony naming a laneway after the choir
1973UJPO’s Montreal Jewish Folk Choir remained a beloved institution in the 70’s even as Quebec Jews began to make the exodus down the 401 and the Montreal membership dwindledAbout the choir
Voices, a hundred years running.
The Toronto Jewish Folk Choir began as the Freiheit Gezang Farein, the Freedom Singing Society, an amateur chorus of immigrant workers who believed song belonged to everyone. A century on, it still performs the Yiddish repertoire: partisan hymns, folk melodies, and new works, in concert each year. In 2026, for UJPO's centennial, the choir returned to the stage.
Source: adapted from Wikipedia, “Toronto Jewish Folk Choir.”
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