Boruch Kaluszyner & The Melbourne Yiddish Seder Project
The Melbourne Yiddish Seder Project documents and showcases the life and music of Australian musician, Boruch Kaluszyner (1911-1974). A survivor of the Holocaust, Kaluszyner composed a cycle of original songs for the Third Seder, a secular communal Passover meal traditionally held after the first two religious seders. Today, Kaluszyner’s songs continue to be sung at Passover seders and his music remains a rich trove that forms part of Melbourne’s distinct Jewish and Yiddish post war cultural heritage. The project aims to honour this legacy by creating and sharing new recordings of Kaluszyner’s Yiddish songs; posting an accessible booklet of the lyrics in the original Yiddish and English transliteration; and conducting educational programming.
