The Museum of Jewish Heritage is mounting three distinct performances about Jewish memory this March

This March, the Museum of Jewish Heritage is staging three very different performances that circle the same big question: what happens to Jewish stories as they’re handed down, reshaped and reinterpreted by the next generation?

On March 15, pianist Roger Peltzman takes the stage with Dedication, a solo theatrical and musical work rooted in his own family history. At its center is an uncle he never had the chance to know—a promising young pianist who was murdered in Auschwitz at 21. Through music and memory, Peltzman traces his family’s flight from Nazi-occupied Europe and wrestles with the weight of second-generation survivor trauma, exploring how art can serve as both inheritance and lifeline.

Then, on March 19, comes Tevye’s Daughters, a new opera by composer Alex Weiser and librettist Stephanie Fleischmann, commissioned by the American Lyric Theater. The piece zooms in on Shprintse, the often-overlooked youngest daughter of Tevye the Dairyman, the beloved character created by Sholem Aleichem and later immortalized in Fiddler on the Roof. The opera moves between a Ukrainian shtetl in 1907 and a Catskills summer bungalow in 1964, following Shprintse’s descendants as they unearth a long-buried family history.

Rounding out the series on March 25 is a staged reading of All in the Telling, written and performed by Canadian actor Saul Rubinek. The autobiographical work begins with Rubinek falling in love with a non-Jewish woman—much to the dismay of his Holocaust-survivor parents—and unfolds into something deeper. In trying to repair the rift, he sets out to tell his parents’ love story, only to uncover layers of devotion, bravery and long-kept secrets that complicate the very idea of memory itself.

Check out tickets to see all three performances, which will be mounted at the museum’s Edmond J. Safra Hall, right here.