Eleanor Reissa is a highly sought-after storyteller, author, singer and speaker, in English — and Yiddish, her first language. She speaks and performs frequently as a dynamic leading voice of Jewish memory, history, culture, language, theater, and song. She is often asked to combine her book talks with her passionate and powerful cabaret program.
2022
2024
Jan 18
Folksbiene LIVE: An Intimate Conversation Between Zalmen Mlotek and Eleanor Reissa
Jan 20
Yiddish Book Center: TALK | The Letter’s Project: A Daughter’s Journey, with Eleanor Reissa
Jan 27
Echoes In Ink: A Liberation Day Reading Of Short Stories From The Holocaust
Jan 27
NY Public Library: Holocaust Remembrance Day: Memory, Family, and Survival
Feb 3
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research: Book Talk with journalist and author Sandee Brawarsky
Feb 27
Hartt 100 presents Frank London’s Klezmer Brass Allstars featuring Eleanor Reissa
Mar 9
The Mark Twain House & Museum: Letters, Legacy & Family Lore of the Holocaust
Mar 24
Yiddish Ukraine: Songs and Stories | Thursday, March 24 @ 7 p.m. EDT
Apr 19
April 19: Manhattan commemoration of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Apr 26
JEWISH WOMEN’S ARCHIVE podcast: Can We Talk?
Apr 26
Zoominars at Moment Magazine: Letters from the Lingerie Drawer: A Daughter’s Journey with Eleanor Reissa and Yehuda Hyman
Apr 28
92nd Street Y: IN PERSON LIVE and streamed…at the Commemorating Yom Hashoah with Eleanor Reissa
May 15 — May 15
The Joan Hamburg Show: Streaming on WABCRA​DIO​.COM
May 21
Eleanor Reissa and The Music Of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Jun 2
Jewish Culture in Copenhagen, Denmark: Eleanor Reissa & Frank London’s Klezmer Koncert
Jun 29
Museum of Jewish Heritage to Launch Digital Guide with Julianna Margulies, Eleanor Reissa & More
Jul 7 — Jul 10
Yidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish Music
Jul 12 — Jul 19
Musical Film Première — Hershey Felder’s Music in the Jewish Ghetto of Venice
Jul 22 — Jul 22
Yiddishkayt, Online Event: In Conversation With: Eleanor Reissa
Nov 6