Heritage & Culture

Songs from Testimonies: Music from the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

Internationally acclaimed musician, scholar, and educator D. Zisl Slepovitch will serve as an Artist-in-Residence at Appalachian State University from Friday, Aug. 28, through Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026. The three-day residency, presented by App State’s Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies, App State’s Hayes School of Music, and the Temple of the High Country, with generous support from the Nadiv Funders of Western North Carolina, is free and open to the public. Slepovitch, a native of Minsk, Belarus, is a New York–based multi-instrumentalist, composer, conductor, and Yiddish educator w