Binyumen Schaechter

Who is Binyumen Schaechter?

Binyumen Schaechter is a Yiddish composer and performer, as well as conductor of the Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus and the Pripetshik Singers, an ensemble of native-Yiddish-speaking children. They have performed at Lincoln Center, Shea Stadium, Synagogues, and JCC's across the Northeast. He was a camper at the Yiddish-speaking, Jewish Labour Bund-run Camp Hemshekh. At Camp Hemshekh, he would often play the piano in plays, musicals, and when they sang.

As a performer, he has traveled across North America and in Paris in his one-man show, The Shtetl Comes To Life and together with his daughter Reyna Schaechter in From Kinahora To Kuni-Ayland, his musical revue about the Jewish experience in America.