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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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Yiddish נײַער וועב־זשורנאַל פֿון ייִדישע ווערק מיט העברעיִשע איבערזעצונגעןNew online journal of Yiddish literature with Hebrew translations
אינעם ערשטן נומער קען מען לייענען אַ דערציילונג פֿון אסתּר קרייטמאַן און לידער פֿון ריקודה פּאָטאַש.
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Books Hear classic Yiddish writers read their works, accompanied by translations
An audio recording of 12 Yiddish writers reading their works, accompanied by English translations, is now available. The recording can be ordered either as a digital download or as two CDs (or both), and comes with a book that includes the readings in Yiddish and in English, as well as a biography of each writer…
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Yiddish World An evening of Yiddish theater in translation
On Thursday, February 17, a new book of Yiddish plays that have been translated into English, will be celebrated both in person and on Zoom at 7 p.m. EST. Join YIVO for this free event, filled with scenes of romance, political symbolism and low comedy all deftly translated by Yiddish theater scholar Nahma Sandrow, and…
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