Maria Ka

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Here is a point -
a form -
where I find myself reborn. Home.

🪐 חַי ∞ Again, it was published and reviewed by largest Jewish & Yiddish media.

Maria „Ka” Kawska – vocalist, pianist, composer and lyricist that performs music material mainly in Yiddish. Her works were present in "The Times of Israel", "Forverts / The Forward", "Tablet", Yiddishistke and other renown Yiddish - Jewish sources. The double "Bubbe Awards" winner: in 2021 for her solo piece "Krankheyt קראַנקהייט" ( People's Choice and 3rd Place Award in the category of "Best new

Yiddish song" ) and in 2022 for her solo multilingual piece "Ven es regnt ווען עס רעגנט" ( People's Choice in the category of "Best original partially Yiddish song ). She co-operated or co-operates with various festivals, among which are: Yiddish New York, Singer's Warsaw, Weimarer Filmsommer, Juedische Woche Leipzig, Shalom Polin, „Zbliżenia”, and with institutions, such as Polnisches Institut Berlin, POLIN Museum, the Klezmer Institute, The City of Gdańsk, Spaces of Memory Foundation. She is also a researcher of Jewish culture, particularly of Yiddish cinematography, the role of women in Jewish world and multiple aspects of the Holocaust.

* artistic bio:
In 2015 she created dramatized concert „High heels”, presenting the poetry of Polish – Jewish poet Zuzanna Ginczanka. A year later she took part in American – Polish co-produced movie about Ringelblum’s Archieve, entitled „Who will write our history?” (world premiere: 2018). In 2018 „The music to the lost Yiddish movie” CD was released, which she co-created as a vocalist and musician. The same year – on the occasion of 50th anniversary of March’68 Jewish emigration from Poland - she prepared and performed a premiere concert „Rhythm 19/68” that presented emigrant’s poetry of that period. In 2019 she composed the first original concert entirely in Yiddish, called „Akhsanyes אַכסניות – Hidings”. This year also the premiere of her Yiddish concert with the band „Der Hemshekh דער המשך = the Continuation” took place ( the concert inspired and about invisible female biographies ). In 2020 she released a solo Yiddish album „Di arumike velt די אַרומיקע וועלט – the New Reality”, positively reviewed by major worldwide Jewish sources. In 2022 "Di shaykhesn די שײַכותן" - her newest multilingual solo audiovisual album was released, each song accompanied by the original videoclip. On April 20th 2023 her new Yiddish album "Der Hemshekh דער המשך" - dedicated to invisible women's biographies - premiered. It consists of 5 original songs written in the language contemporarily and 5 already existing Jewish pieces adapted to the woman's perspective. It was recorded with the band within the period of mass women's protests in Poland in Fall 2020. Maria Ka's main artistic interest is focused on exploring the area of femininity, embodying it in public space, retriving and broadening infinite female potiential. She is convinced that it all serves the balance and filling the gap in hitherto patriarchal narrative. Her music works usually consist of author’s Yiddish songs and already existing traditional Jewish pieces adapted to contemporary music means and female perspective. In synagogue of Gdańsk she conducted lectures at open university „Beit – Meir” and Yiddish – singing workshops. She is a scholarship holder honoured by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland, the Town of Gdańsk and Pomeranian Voivodship Marshal.

* scholar's bio:

She holds the double MA - in Jewish Studies and Psychology from Jagiellonian University, Kraków (2010, 2011). Her master’s thesis „The women of of Jewish cinematography in Poland. Characters and actresses” received a distinction in 5th Majer Bałaban contest for best doctoral and master’s theses, organized by Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw. Currently lecturing on Jewish culture, Yiddish, women in Jewish world and many more at University of Social Sciences and Humanities ( SWPS ) in Sopot.

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" Listening to Maria Ka’s Yiddish electropop album, “Di Arumike Velt” [The Surrounding World], was for me like hearing music from a parallel universe. Not only are the Yiddish songs about the coronavirus era and issues facing women in 2020s Poland, but the music itself is unlike anything I’ve heard performed in the language. Maria Kawska, a millennial resident of Gdansk, who records under the stage name Maria Ka, has a unique sound that includes elements of electronic dance music, europop, alternative rock and cold wave. Playing electric guitar, piano and keyboard, she makes ample use of a looping machine." / Jordan Kutzik, The Forward

"There is no question that Ka is motivated by serious issues, but her music can also be fun. One example is “Bingo,” about multiple identities. Its video, with many different versions of Ka’s face concurrently bopping around the screen, is a blast." / Renee Ghert Zand, The Times of Israel

"Ka’s feminism is woven through all of her creative work, whether it’s her songs or even her social media. (... ) there is not one note of klezmer to be found in her already impressive discography. It’s no secret that I am a passionate devotee of all things klez. But I also believe that it’s vital for artists to find their own musical way with the Yiddish materials at hand, something Maria Ka demonstrates with a very modern verve." / Rokhl Kafrissen, Tablet

20/04/2026

* on this Day exactly 3 years ago

🧿 Der Hemshekh דער המשך 🧿
( eng. The Continuation )

Yiddish album premiered ▪️

it is fully dedicated to invisible women's biographies ▪️with 5 original songs immersed in non - klezmer, electronic, punk, avantgarde & rock Music styles & 5 Jewish classics adapted to the female perspective, it was created to uncover women's voices that were omitted in main historical narrative, set women as narrators of events, present female points of view & their perspectives, and distinctively mark women's presence in whole chains of plots & events ▪️the main intention of my creations is also deeply present in this material: to embody Yiddish language pulsating vividly in the 21st century in truely contemporary forms ▪️

it is my 4th album in Yiddish, this Time recorded with the Band ▪️

the date of its premiere was set exactly one Day after the 80th anniversary of Warsaw's ghetto uprising - to highlight the Life of Yiddish & Jewish culture▪️

heartily invite you to celebrate
▪️Der Hemshekh דער המשך ▪️'s
3rd Birthday & immerse in this Cosmos at my Bc page ( link in the comment ⬇️ ) ▪️

the first image of the post is one of 2 main covers of the album ▪️

the second graphic is the cover of
▪️Mayn simen iz Skorpion ♏ מײַן סימן איז סקאָרפּיאָן ▪️( eng. My sign is Scorpio ) videoclip ▪️

heartily invite you to watch it on my Yt channel

🧿

have a Good, Cosmic Monday, dear Khavertes un Khaverim חבֿרטעס און חבֿרים 🪐

19/04/2026

* April 19th 1943 - > April 19th 2026 ▪️

the 83rd anniversary of Warsaw's ghetto uprising ▪️

מיר זײַנען דאָ ▪️
mir zaynen do ▪️ we are here

"זאָג ניט קיין מאָל אַז דו גייסט דעם לעצטן וועג
הימלען בלײַענע פֿאַרשטעלן בלויע טעג
קומען וועט דאָך אונדזער אויסגעבענקטע שעה
ס'וועט אַ פּויק טאָן אונדזער טראָט – מיר זײַנען דאָ" ▪️

▪️Zog nit keyn mol ▪️זאָג ניט קיין מאָל ▪️
Never say by Hirsh Glick

12/04/2026

* Today was my last lecture within

🔹 Jewish Studies 🔹

postgraduate course at
Uniwersytet SWPS in Sopot ▪️

it was pure joy - thank you very much to All fantastic Students that I had a pleasure to meet, discuss & share different topics on Jewish culture with ▪️it was already 3rd edition of this course & I am very Happy to be a part of it ▪️

during my lectures I talked about multiple aspects of secular Jewish culture, including Yiddish cinematography & theater, and the language itself; popculture and Jewish Music | art ( their common & separate fields and [ co - ] existence ] and, last but certainly not least, women in the Jewish world ♀️ the roles, women's presence and abscence in various areas, plus whole deep exploration on the topic of women's experience of [ non - ] existence ▪️

we exchanged thoughts, points of views, opinions with a group of wonderful, open - minded, curious & self - aware people ▪️ thank you for this Journey, fruitful process & all meetings - they were truely heartwarming, especially in this difficult Time ▪️

best of Luck with your upcoming lectures !

זאָל זײַן מיט מזל 🔹
בהצלחה 🧿

my continuous thank you to Marek Suchar - for a great invitation to become a part of this postgradual course ▪️

19/03/2026

* dear Khavertes un Khaverim חבֿרטעס און חבֿרים,

excited to share the news that the 8th - and final - song from my 4th electro - rock - punk Yiddish album titled

⚙️ Di Mashin די מאַשין ⚙️

is out▪️the piece is called

🔴 Di milkhome
די מלחמה 🔴
( ▪️ eng. War ▪️)

heartily invite you to listen to the whole song :
https://mariaka.bandcamp.com/track/di-milkhome

& read its lyrics + translations ▪️

the album is divided into 2 parts : ר - rock | guitar & ע - electronic ▪️ this piece is the only one that I labeled as a mixed - genre song, so you'll find the ער sign next to its name 🔻

CD purchase with 73 - page digital book with original Yiddish lyrics, their translations, author's graphics & more is available at :
mariaka.bandcamp.com/album/di-mashin

the solo Galaxy of ⚙️ Di Mashin די מאַשין ⚙️ consists of 8 songs that I've written contemporarily in Yiddish ▪️ the material is inspired by the title main theme of broadly understood machinery, mechanisms & multilayered systems of rhythmic, steady clatter driven by people's emotions & relations ▪️

each song is a separate story with its own plot & dynamics, immersed in different Music styles ▪️ together they form a changeable system of tiny elements that transform into a different, unpredictable mechanism every Day as new contexts unfold around ▪️

heartily invite you to dive into 🔻 די מאַשין 🔻
as the reality reshapes it into a different wholeness of meanings every single second 🔴

03/03/2026

🔊 I heartily invite you to tune in to Radio TOK FM & listen to a great broadcast ▪️Kultura Osobista ▪️ right Now 🪐
just after 11:40 am I am a guest of wonderful host & journalist Marta Perchuć - Burzyńska ▪️ we are talking about my Newest "Di Mashin די מאַשין" Universe ( CD release in the picture ) and loads more, including the presence of my video - Music - graphical works on ▪️The Power of Words. On Jewish Languages ▪️ exhibition in Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich POLIN & much, much less pleasant thing - hate ▪️
thank you very much for having me, Marta 🙏🏾

< in Polish only, dear Khavertes un Khaverim חבֿרטעס און חבֿרים >

🔊 zapraszam Was serdecznie do włączenia Radia TOK FM i posłuchania wspaniałej audycji ▪️ Kultura Osobista ▪️
chwilę po 11:40 będę gościć u Marty Perchuć - Burzyńskiej ✨ rozmawiamy o moim najNowszym Kosmosie "Di Mashin די מאַשין" ( wydawnictwo CD na zdjęciu ) i wielu innych sprawach, m.in. obecności moich wideo - Muzyczno - graficznych prac na wystawie ▪️Moc słów. O językach żydowskich ▪️w Muzeum POLIN oraz o kwestii dużo, dużo mniej przyjemnej - o hejcie▪️

serdecznie dziękuję, Marta Perchuć-Burzyńska
i Maciej Stempurski - za miłe zaproszenie i wspaniałe spotkanie na falach 🙏🏾 🌊 to wielka przyjemność ▪️

16/02/2026

* Happy to share the news that - after a break - we're back with the 3rd edition of postgradual studies at University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Sopot - Uniwersytet SWPS called

▪️Jewish Studies ▪️ 🎉

I'm very glad to be a lecturer within this faculty ▫️

during my course, I'm sharing, talking & discussing topics connected with secular Jewish culture, including Yiddish cinematography & theater, and the language itself; popculture and Jewish Music | art ( their common & separate fields and [ co - ] existence ] and, last but certainly not least, women in the Jewish world ♀️ the roles, women's presence and abscence in various areas, plus whole deep exploration on the topic of women's experience of [ non - ] existence.

▫️ the studies are packed with outstanding specialists in their fields, whom all you can check out through the link in the comment ⬇️

my first class has already taken place & this Sunday I'm lecturing | meeting again▪️ the new group of students is fantastic, full of open - minded people deeply wishing to immerse in Jewish - oriented topics ✨

thank you very much to the students of 1st & 2nd edition - it was pure pleasure to meet with you, dive in diverse topics within the field of secular Jewish culture, talk, discuss & share various points of view ▫️I Hope you've found the whole course satisfying & fruitful ▫️

my continuous thank you to Marek Suchar for the invitation & including me in the great lecturers' group 🙏🏾 אַ שיינעם דאַנק ▪️ I'm Happy to have an opportunity to share the combination of my skills, experience & education in Music, Jewish Studies & Psychology further to the world▪️

📷 More Than Breath
edit background: me

03/02/2026

* thrilled to share the news that
▪️Alef - Tsentauri Disko א - צענטאַורי דיסקאָ ▪️ the opening song of my Newest
⚙️ Di Mashin די מאַשין ⚙️ album

got included by the great Canadian Music journalist & promoter, various co-operations of whom include SiriusXM :

▪️ Eric Alper▪️

in his fantastic curated Spotify playlist
▪️"360° : The Best Indie Music" ▪️

thank you very much ! 🙏🏾
I'm deeply grateful for this inclusion
אַ שיינעם דאַנק

heartily invite you to listen to all wonderful Sounds & whole playlist, dear Khavertes un Khaverim חבֿרטעס און חבֿרים ⬇️ through link in the comment ⬇️

Spotify

22/01/2026

* in American ▪️ RootsWorld▪️a great,
in - depth, extensive review of my Newest
⚙️ Di Mashin די מאַשין ⚙️
album has just been published ▪️

heartily invite you to read it, dear Khavertes un Khaverim חבֿרטעס און חבֿרים, under this link :
https://rootsworld.com/reviews/ka-26.shtml

the author of the review is Lee Blackstone, who, apart from being a wonderful writer, is a professor at SUNY - The State University of New York 🟡

⚙️"Di Mashin is possessed by such a singular offbeat vision and personal mythology that I wonder where Maria Ka will take her Yiddishfuturism next… Perhaps beyond our solar system, grooving on an interstellar plane with her band wriggling like snakes." ⚙️

thank you very much, Lee, for this amazing, multilayered, poetic writing full of great & Cosmic references 🙏🏾 thank you very much, Cliff Furnald, for your openness towards my electroYiddish Music & creating Space for it in wonderful ▪️ RootsWorld ▪️ I'm deeply grateful ▪️

12/01/2026

* a video impression of the last concert alias Cosmic electroYiddish Drift that I played in 2025 🪐 in Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich POLIN ▪️ accompanying the exhibition
🔸The Power of Words. On Jewish Languages 🔸 within which some elements of my Galaxies are presented: a videoclip & 2 posters | graphics 🟡

I was super Happy to perform New songs from latest ⚙️ Di Mashin די מאַשין ⚙️ album, some of them for the very first Time ▪️ thank you for a great reception of them, dear Khavertes un Khaverim חבֿרטעס און חבֿרים 🙏🏾

the video consists of fragments from the concert & Soundcheck, songs are in the following order :

🔸Alef - Tsentauri Disko א - צענטאַורי דיסקאָ
🔸Vos iz dos ? וואָס איז דאָס
🔸Enigma עניגמאַ
🔸( I ) ShaWoman אשה פֿרוי
🔸Dos geverk דאָס געווערק
🔸SuperNove סופּערנאָווע
🔸( I ) ShaWoman אשה פֿרוי ▪️craziness

wishing you all the Best in 2026 : Health, fulfillment of your Dreams & only Good People around ▪️ thank you for being here, thank you for creating an amazing part of the electroYiddish Universes 🙏🏾

to me 2025 was great & tough at the same Time ▪️ I played a lot of fantastic concerts in fantastic places, met awesome People, created & released New album, got invited to wonderful venues & programs▪️ thank you to All of you who made these great things happen - I'm very grateful 🤍 2025 was also a first ever close encounter with loads of online hatred - ppl got triggered just because of seeing Jewish letters in the content of my posts ▪️it was a difficult experience, very alienating & overwhelming at some point ▪️in the end though I believe that Light, Dialogue & Connection - the intentions behind my creations - are far more Powerful, so I keep on sticking to them & to All fantastic opportunities that I got in 2025 ▪️I continue to spread Light & Peace ☄️may it shine on your Paths endless Times this year ▪️

🎞️ shots by Ewa Chomicka,
& - thank you ▪️

18/12/2025

* dear Khavertes un Khaverim חבֿרטעס און חבֿרים,

excited to share the News that the 7th song from my 4th electro - rock - punk Yiddish album is out ▪️
it is the title song of the whole material called

⚙️ Di Mashin די מאַשין ⚙️
( eng. The Machine )

it is a piece about ruthless mechanical system that consumes everyday Peace▪️the song's base industrial whirr constitutes rhythm which presents main theme of a remorseless machine - some kind of an engine aiming at producing more money from already existing money▪️coins from coins ▪️existing merely in order to manipulate and profit ▪️

heartily invite you to listen to the whole song : https://mariaka.bandcamp.com/track/di-mashin

& read its lyrics + translations ▪️

the piece is a part of ר rock | guitar section of the album 🔸 since the material is divided into two : ע & ר ( electronic ) 🔸

CD purchase with 73 - page digital book with original Yiddish lyrics, their translations, author's graphics & more available at :
mariaka.bandcamp.com/album/di-mashin

🟣 the picture illustrating the video is one of 2 covers of the physical version of the album - the CD's jacket cover ▪️

the solo Galaxy of ⚙️ Di Mashin די מאַשין ⚙️ consists of 8 songs that I've written contemporarily in Yiddish ▪️ the material is inspired by the title main theme of broadly understood machinery, mechanisms & multilayered systems of rhythmic, steady clatter driven by people's emotions & relations
⚙️

have an energetic Week 🌪️
don't let the machine consume you ▪️

12/12/2025

* thank you very much to All of You ✨
אַ שיינעם דאַנק
for listening to my Music on & above every single nook of Planet Earth , in 2025 especially to : 🇩🇪 , 🇺🇲 , 🇵🇱 , 🇨🇵 , 🇸🇪

🙏🏾 🤍

may the electroYiddish Cosmoses drift High, broad & Above ✨ 🪐 ✨ ☮️

Spotify wrapped 🌪️

ps. last year's Top order was :
🇺🇲 , 🇵🇱 , 🇩🇪 , 🇸🇪 , 🇮🇱▪️

08/12/2025

* Warsaw, Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich POLIN - thank you very much for Saturday's שבת High electroYiddish Flight above the Skies 🪐 ✨ we Drifted in all kinds of nooks of Far Galaxies ▪️

it was great to perform my brand New songs from ⚙️ Di Mashin די מאַשין ⚙️ album ▪️
it was also wonderful to sing & play some pieces from ▪️Di arumike velt די אַרומיקע וועלט ▪️ and ▪️Di shaykhesn די שייַכותן ▪️ what a ( de )Lightful electro - alt - rock - punk - trad - Yiddish disco in the surrounding of
▫️ The Power of Words. On Jewish Languages▫️ exhibition's Space, on which my Art is presented ▪️

thank you to the fantastic Audience - it was Cosmic to Fly together 🙏🏾 thank you to Ewa Chomicka - for a great invitation to perform, thank you to Alicja Kaczmarek-Poławska - for the whole organizational work; it was another superb co - operation with your duo 💛 thank you to Łukasz Cieślak - for the Sound ▪️ - for the drawing impression of my performance ( 📷 11 ) 🙏🏾

⚙️ Di Mashin די מאַשין ⚙️ album is continuously drifting in Space, together with other electroYiddish Universes of mine, on various internet platforms, heartily invite you to keep the Flight high by listening▪️the exhibition in POLIN lasts till June 2026 - heartily invite you to visit it & immerse in its beauty & whole variety of Jewish languages 🔵

📷 from performance: Ewa Chomicka
📷 from rehearsal: Alicja Kaczmarek - Poławska
thank you for wonderful footage ▪️

apart from different things, the concert was an ending point of Kultur Lige meeting - thank you to fellow Jewish artists + people who attended the program in various roles, who joined the electroYiddish Drift 🪐

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