‘Yiddish Word of the Day’ Facebook group is launched
Forverts editor Rukhl Schaechter, who hosts the series, hopes members will view the clips and leave comments about the words and expressions used.
National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene celebrates director Zalmen Mlotek
Mlotek is turning 70, and the Folksbiene – 106!
Photo collection captures Hasidic life round the world
Agnieszka Traczewska’s new collection, “A Rekindled World”, includes portraits of Hasidic men and women.
Symposium to explore rich world of Jewish children’s literature in pre-WWII Europe
As part of the program, curators at YIVO and Oxford University’s Bodleian Library will share colorful illustrated books from their collections.
Literary celebration to mark poet Itzik Manger’s 120th birthday
Singers and actors Mike Burstyn, Shane Baker, Mendy Cahan and Shura Lipowsky will perform the popular songwriter’s works.
Sholem Asch’s groundbreaking play, “God of Vengeance”, now streaming in English
The first Broadway production was closed down for portraying unconventional characters and the first lesbian kiss on Broadway.
More than a century after her death, this woman writer is being celebrated
A collection of stories by the newly rediscovered writer Salomea Perl.
Yiddish online concert to include African-American songs
Among the songs’ topics: workers’ rights and racial equality.
Yiddish song mystifies, then wows judges on Ukrainian version of ‘The Voice’
The song performed by the duo, the Alibi Sisters, was a Barry Sisters classic, “Chiribim Chiribom”.
WATCH: Irene and Ruth make p’tcha
Two lifelong friends demonstrate how to make this traditional Jewish delicacy, even without access to calves’ feet.