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Yiddish World The Forverts is going on vacation. Here’s how to access our content during the break.
Below you'll find the links to our articles, Yiddish Word of the Day series and our cooking shows.
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Yiddish World Linguist Isaac Bleaman receives National Science Foundation award to study language of Holocaust survivors
The $470,000 grant will support research based on Yiddish-language testimonies from the USC Shoah Foundation.
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Yiddish World VIDEO: ‘Hava Nagila’ and two other Israeli hit songs – in Yiddish
David Eshet’s recording of “Yerushalayim shel zahav” (“Jerusalem, City of Gold”) became the most popular Yiddish song in Israel’s history.
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Yiddish World April 19: Manhattan commemoration of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
On Tuesday, April 19 at 1 p.m. there will be an in-person commemorative program dedicated to the Jewish men and women who fought in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The event will take place in Riverside Park, Manhattan. Since 1947, when the City of New York earmarked a site for a memorial to the Warsaw Ghetto…
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Yiddish World Yiddish artists collective is launched in Melbourne
A new Yiddish artists collective in Melbourne has released two videos of mystical Yiddish poetry set to music. The artists collective, called “Di Farborgene Khalyastre” (“The Gang of the Concealed”), took the name from a major Yiddish cultural avant-garde movement in Warsaw in the early 1920s which brought together poets, novelists dedicated to European expressionism,…
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Yiddish World VIDEO: “Go Down, Moyshe” – a Yiddish take on “Go Down, Moses”
Yisroel Leshes, Assistant Cantor at Lincoln Square Synagogue, has released a video of the African-American spiritual “Go Down, Moses” in Yiddish – with a jazzy twist. Leshes has previously infused Yiddish songs with jazz elements, as in his release of the song “Younger World”. In this video, he performs “Go Down, Moses” during a live…
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Yiddish World The concert that composer Sholem Secunda nearly missed
From the editor: On August 26, 1971, the Forverts published this article in Yiddish by Sholom Secunda, the prolific composer of hits like “Bay Mir Bistu Sheyn” and “Dona Dona”. In it, he describes why he nearly cancelled going to a concert of his songs, performed by campers at the Yiddish summer camp, Camp Hemshekh….
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Yiddish World VIDEO: Learn why dumplings are a Purim tradition
Rukhl Schaechter and Eve Jochnowitz demonstrate how to make this tasty dish the way East European Jews did it for centuries and explain why it’s a Purim specialty.
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