A short Yiddish horror film set at the start of the Hasidic movement
Informed by Jewish folklore and the writings of Isaac Bashevis Singer, the film carries a mythic poetic quality
Yiddish World
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Course to explore Ukrainian-Yiddish dialect of the theater and the Breslov Hasidim
The dialect was once widely spoken not just in Ukraine, but in Romania, Moldova and Poland
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Warsaw Yiddish summer seminar to focus on the Yiddish press
Topics include the Yiddish press in the first two decades after WWII and sports journalism in Yiddish
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Registration now open for the Yiddish summer program in Paris
Advanced students will read the writings of the Yiddish author and historian Rokhl Auerbach and classic Yiddish children’s poetry.
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Conference to promote the study of Eastern European Jewry in Ukraine
Papers are being sought on aspects of shtetl life, religious and intellectual thought and Yiddish language and culture
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Psychologist, writer and Yiddish culture activist Michael Fox has died
In addition to a memoir, Fox authored two plays, a children's book and three novels.
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The concert where Paul Robeson was warned not to sing in Yiddish
When Soviet government leaders invited the singer to give a concert, he did something they didn't expect.
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‘Bad Yiddish’ is theme of the 2025 virtual Yiddish conference, Farbindungen
In line with the topic is a lecture on Yiddish literature about Warsaw’s prewar Yiddish-speaking criminals.
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Tel Aviv arts center to host event on Yiddish women’s poetry
The inspiration for the event at Neve Schechter was a poem by poet Celia Dropkin about New York's urban experience
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A young artist’s search for the long-lost script of a Yiddish play
A new play aims to counteract stereotypes promoted by many news articles about the Yiddishist community
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What happened when my grandmother took my little sister and me to President Carter's inauguration
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