
YidLife Crisis
Boychiks in Berlin!
An Evening of Comedy with YidLife Crisis (video recording available)
Yidd-ish, kosher-ish, blasphem-ish: Eli Batalion and Jamie Elman alias Chaimie und Leizer of YidLife Crisis reflect on the modern Jewish experience with a healthy dose of humor.
recording available

Where
Old Building, ground level, Glass Courtyard
Lindenstraße 9–14, 10969 Berlin
Video recording from 15 Jun 2023; Jewish Museum Berlin 2023
(more videos on the YidLife Crises YouTube channel)
For the first time ever in Berlin, the boychiks from Montreal present an evening of comedy, film and music, which includes investigating the German capital with their special brand of chuzpe.
YidLife Crisis is the worldwide first Yiddish web series, an homage to yiddishkayt and a love letter to the Jewish-Canadian experience, complete with bagels and a grain of salt.
No need to be Jewish nor knowledge of Yiddish required. Sense of humor requested.
In cooperation with the Jewish Film Festival Berlin Brandenburg and the Embassy of Canada to Germany.
YidLife Crisis
YidLife Crisis plotzed onto the internet in 2014 as the world’s first (and best!… and only) Yiddish web series, toasting, roasting and wrestling with the modern Jewish experience. Since then, co-creators Jamie Elman & Eli Batalion have racked up over 4 million online views of their irreverent, insightful shtick, various awards and nominations, and frequent live performances across North America.
YidLife Crisis website

Cultural Summer at the Jewish Museum Berlin
- Landing Page
- Cultural Summer 2025: 20 Jul to 30 Aug 2025
- Events
- Join the JMB Summer Party for the Whole Family: Sun, 20 Jul 2025
- Jazz in the Garden with the Hugo Fernández Quartet: Sun, 3 Aug 2025
- Jazz in the Garden with the Lerner Moguilevsky Duo – Sun 17 Aug 2025
- Creative Love! – Long Night of Museums: Sun, 30 Aug 2025
- Digital Content
- Current page: Boychiks in Berlin! Video recording of the evening of comedy with YidLife Crisis opening our Cultural Summer 2023
- Read the Signs: Video recording of an evening to mark the 70th anniversary of the Night of Murdered Poets, Cultural Summer 2022, in Yiddish and German
- Cultural Summer 2021: Video recordings
- Cultural Summer 2017: Audio and video recordings
Where, when, what?
- WhenThu 15 Jun 2023, 7 pm
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Where
Old Building, ground level, Glass Courtyard
Lindenstraße 9–14, 10969 Berlin
See location on map
Video Recordings: Watch Past Museum Events (85)
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Watch Past Museum Events
We film select events, such as conferences, panel discussions, book presentations, and our lecture series.