Forverts Staff
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Yiddish World VIDEO: Cantor’s jazzy remake of Yiddish song of hope
Yisroel Leshes, assistant cantor of New York’s Orthodox Lincoln Square Synagogue, has released a cool, jazzy version of Morris Winchevsky’s Yiddish song, “Di Tsukunft” (“The Future”), which dreams of the day when “di velt vet vern frayer, shener, yinger, nayer” (“the world will be freer, lovelier, younger and newer”). The music video, accompanied by English…
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Yiddish World VIDEO: Applying makeup in Hasidic Yiddish (English subtitles)
Instagram star Riki Rose gives a Yiddish tutorial on something many women do each morning, but that isn’t usually taught in a Yiddish class.
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Yiddish World A Swedish celebration of Yiddish culture – in English
On December 14, a renowned Jewish educational institute in Sweden will be hosting an online celebration of Yiddish language and culture. The event will be conducted in English. Paideia – the European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden has coordinated a series of lectures about Yiddish film, theater, literature and music, given by experts in…
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Yiddish World VIDEO: Pumpkin donuts, lighter latkes and drinks to go with them
The donuts are made with vitamin-packed pureed pumpkin and the latkes are lo-carb, yet tasty and crunchy
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Yiddish World VIDEO: Three klezmer stars busy in the kitchen
This week, you can watch klezmer sensations Frank London, Sarah Gordon and Lorin Sklamberg preparing some favorite Hanukkah dishes in the kitchen, singing while they work. The program, called ESN, was produced by the National Yiddish Theater – Folksbiene. It will be streaming until the last day of Hanukkah, December 6. The inspiration to put…
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Yiddish World Online festival, Yiddish New York, open for registration
The U.S.’s largest annual Yiddish culture festival, Yiddish New York, is once again going to be conducted online, enabling people all over the globe to participate in its wide variety of workshops and lectures. The festival will take place from December 25 to December 30, 2021. Among the many sessions participants can choose to attend…
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Yiddish World Yiddish translation of iconic Russian song plays on national Russian TV
Yoel Matveyev, the Forverts’ correspondent in Russia, was sitting alone in a Moscow train station in the middle of the night, when he suddenly got the inspiration to translate the Russian song, “Nadezhda”, about two lovers separated by a long and difficult journey, into Yiddish. Although the song was written in 1971, it remains hugely…
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Yiddish World Virtual celebration for bilingual children’s book, “The Clever Tailor”
A new bilingual edition of the classic Yiddish children’s book, “The Clever Little Tailor”, will be celebrated at an online book party this Sunday, November 17 at 4 pm EST. The event is free of charge. The book, by the children’s writer and Yiddish cultural activist, Solomon Simon (1895-1970), was released by Kinder-Loshn Publications, a…
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