Cantor Shira Ginsburg
Shira Ginsburg is an award-winning singer, performer, playwright, storyteller, Jewish educator, and Cantor whose work spans the synagogue, concert stage, theater and classroom.
Founder of Jewishly Ever After and Cantor Emerita of East End Temple in Manhattan, where she served as Founding Cantor and Senior Cantor for 18 years, Shira is an award-winning interpreter of Chazzanut and Jewish music.
In 2025 she joined Broadway star Norm Lewis as a featured guest performer on his concert tour. She is the creator, writer and star of the acclaimed, one-woman musical, Bubby's Kitchen, recipient of the Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation's Lev Aryeh Award, and a five-album recording artist.
Featured Performance
BUBBY'S KITCHEN – The Acclaimed One-Woman Musical
ONE WOMAN. SEVEN CHARACTERS. ONE EXTRAORDINARY JEWISH FAMILY STORY.
Written, created and performed by Shira Ginsburg and directed by Broadway director Schele Williams, Bubby's Kitchen is an acclaimed one-woman musical inspired by Shira's grandparents, Yudis and Motke Ginsburg – Jewish partisans and Holocaust survivors who rebuilt their lives in America. Through seven characters, original music, humor and vivid storytelling, Shira explores survival, family, food, identity, legacy and our responsibility to the stories we inherit.
Bubby's Kitchen Demo:
Additional topics Shira can present are:
• From Somewhere to Over the Rainbow; The Jewish story of Broadway (Available as a Multimedia presentation, Lecture-Concert or a Full Concert)
From the yearning of Somewhere to the hope of Over the Rainbow, some of Broadway's most enduring music was created by Jewish artists searching for belonging, possibility and a place in America. Through live performance, storytelling and history, Shira explores the composers and lyricists who shaped the American musical.
Drawing on her mastery of Jewish liturgy and cantorial tradition, she sings the connections between synagogue and stage, revealing echoes of cantorial modes and Jewish musical traditions within familiar songs. This is the Jewish story told - and sung - through Broadway.
• The Legacy of the Jewish Partisans; Resistance, Survival & One Family’s Extraordinary Story
• The Music that Makes Us Jewish; How Folk Music, Summer Camp & a New Generation Changed the Sound of American Judaism
• We Are the Story; Memory, Meaning & the Art of Jewish Storytelling
Demo Reel:
Also available in Concert:
• A Bissel Yiddish; From the Shtetl to the Yiddish Theater
• The Great American Songbook; Broadway, Jazz & American Classics
• The Soundtrack of a Generation; Carol King, James Taylor, Bonnie Raitt, Billy Joel & more.
Concerts may be arranged with piano, as a duet, or expanded with additional musical guests. Custom concert programs can also be arranged.
Testimonials
Run, don't walk to hire Shira Ginsburg to bring Bubby’s Kitchen to your community. I laughed; I cried; I loved every minute! – Deborah Fidel, Executive Director, Temple Shalom, Naples
Shira is superb and her voice soars. – Cantor Barbara Ostfeld