VIDEO: Three klezmer stars busy in the kitchen
Watch Frank London, Lorin Sklamberg and Sarah Gordon cooking up some favorite dishes, singing while they work.
Online festival, Yiddish New York, open for registration
Among the sessions: discussion of a new online cantorial archive; a matzah ball cooking demo, and how to create Yiddish-related content for TikTok.
Yiddish translation of iconic Russian song plays on national Russian TV
This month, Russians are celebrating 50 years since the love song, “Nadezhda”, was released.
Virtual celebration for bilingual children’s book, “The Clever Tailor”
Solomon Simon, who wrote the book, was a prolific Yiddish writer and a founder of the Sholem Aleichem Folk Institute.
‘Waiting for Godot’ in Yiddish to play at Sweden’s Royal Theatre
This will be the first Yiddish production in the history of Sweden’s national theater.
Yiddishist San Diego organization now has a home
The new Yiddish cultural center will feature lectures, workshops, dramatic readings and exhibits.
Online Yiddish Hanukkah song workshop and sing-along
Besides teaching how to pronounce the lyrics, instructor Binyumen Schaechter will provide the songs’ musical, historical and linguistic nuances.
New edition of landmark English-Yiddish Dictionary includes “lockdown” and “breakout room”
Just as the late author had intended, its editors are determined to keep the Yiddish language current in today’s changing world.
VIDEO: Actor Jacob Lewin describes Yiddish cultural life in the Lodz ghetto
The Yiddish actor, Jacob Lewin, who lives in Los Angeles, is one of the few Jews left who actually remembers what life was like in the Lodz Ghetto.
Intensive beginners’ Yiddish class will use new prizewinning textbook
The book includes characters that represent the various types of people who speak and study Yiddish today, from Hasidim to Jews of color.