Moishe Rosenfeld

2024 Manhattan Jewish Hall of Fame Inductee

Biography

Moishe Rosenfeld is a producer, writer, actor, agent, and radio host who has been a part of New York's Yiddish cultural world since his arrival from his native Montreal in 1969. He runs Golden Land Concerts, an agency representing leading performers of Israeli, Sephardic, and Yiddish music. He has conceived and produced hundreds of concerts in many of New York’s most prestigious venues, including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and Central Park Summerstage. Among the artists he has presented are Ella Fitzgerald, Itzhak Perlman, Neil Sedaka, Noa, Mandy Patinkin, Joel Grey, Debbie Friedman, and many superstars of Israeli and Chassidic

music. He was the writer and host of the daily Yiddish radio newscast on WEVD from 1982 to 2000. His acting career included major roles in Yiddish theater, Off Broadway, and principal roles in films such as Sophie's Choice, Crossing Delancey, Avalon, and A Midsummer Night Sex Comedy. With his cousin Zalmen Mlotek, he has co-created and produced The Golden Land, On Second Avenue, and the Broadway musical revue Those Were the Days (nominated for two Tony Awards). In recent years he was the Yiddish dialect coach for the Broadway hit Indecent, the music producer for the Kulturfest International Yiddish Culture Festival, and in 2020

he produced the concert commemorating the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz at Temple Emanuel, which featured Itzhak Perlman and the cast of Fiddler in Yiddish.

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