Forverts Staff
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Yiddish World VIDEO: Pumpkin donuts, lighter latkes and drinks to go with them
The donuts are made with vitamin-packed pureed pumpkin and the latkes are lo-carb, yet tasty and crunchy
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Yiddish World VIDEO: Three klezmer stars busy in the kitchen
This week, you can watch klezmer sensations Frank London, Sarah Gordon and Lorin Sklamberg preparing some favorite Hanukkah dishes in the kitchen, singing while they work. The program, called ESN, was produced by the National Yiddish Theater – Folksbiene. It will be streaming until the last day of Hanukkah, December 6. The inspiration to put…
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Yiddish World Online festival, Yiddish New York, open for registration
The U.S.’s largest annual Yiddish culture festival, Yiddish New York, is once again going to be conducted online, enabling people all over the globe to participate in its wide variety of workshops and lectures. The festival will take place from December 25 to December 30, 2021. Among the many sessions participants can choose to attend…
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Yiddish World Yiddish translation of iconic Russian song plays on national Russian TV
Yoel Matveyev, the Forverts’ correspondent in Russia, was sitting alone in a Moscow train station in the middle of the night, when he suddenly got the inspiration to translate the Russian song, “Nadezhda”, about two lovers separated by a long and difficult journey, into Yiddish. Although the song was written in 1971, it remains hugely…
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Yiddish World Virtual celebration for bilingual children’s book, “The Clever Tailor”
A new bilingual edition of the classic Yiddish children’s book, “The Clever Little Tailor”, will be celebrated at an online book party this Sunday, November 17 at 4 pm EST. The event is free of charge. The book, by the children’s writer and Yiddish cultural activist, Solomon Simon (1895-1970), was released by Kinder-Loshn Publications, a…
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Yiddish World ‘Waiting for Godot’ in Yiddish to play at Sweden’s Royal Theatre
Sweden’s national theater, the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, has commissioned the Congress for Jewish Culture to stage Samuel Beckett’s play, “Waiting for Godot” in Yiddish on November 13 and 14. This will be the first Yiddish production in the history of Sweden’s national stage for “spoken drama”, a venerable institution founded in 1788. All…
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Yiddish World Yiddishist San Diego organization now has a home
Yiddish enthusiasts in the San Diego, California region will soon have a meeting place of their own for events related to the Yiddish language and culture. The Yiddish Arts and Academics Association of North America, or YAAANA, has rented a space at 1128 Wall Street in La Jolla, a seaside neighborhood of San Diego. The…
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Yiddish World Online Yiddish Hanukkah song workshop and sing-along
If you’d like to learn or brush up on your knowledge of Yiddish Hanukkah songs, you might consider joining an online workshop and sing-along, led by the conductor of the Yiddish Philharmonic Chorus, Binyumen Schaechter. Schaechter is a brother of Forverts editor, Rukhl Schaechter. Sessions will take place on November 7 and 14, culminating in…
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