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Yiddish World WATCH: Folksbiene ‘Fiddler’ cast performs ‘God Bless America’ in Yiddish
Read this article in Yiddish To mark the inauguration of President Joe Biden on January 20, the Folksbiene released a video on Tuesday featuring the cast of the company’s hit production of “Fiddler on the Roof” performing “God Bless America” in Yiddish. In the video, created by actor Ben Liebert (who played Motl the Tailor),…
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Yiddish World YIVO winter courses cover tyranny, poetry and children’s literature
Read this article in Yiddish For the ninth consecutive year the YIVO Institute will hold a series of intensive winter courses with Bard College. Unlike the annual YIVO summer program, which focuses nearly exclusively on Yiddish language and culture, the “Winter Program on Ashkenazi Civilization” includes a wider range of topics. This year, the program…
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Yiddish World WATCH: A powerful song by a young woman who left the Hasidic world behind
Read this article in Yiddish. Although there have been a number of new Yiddish songs recorded in the past couple of years, it‘s rare to see songs written by women who have left the Hasidic community. Hannah Gee was raised Hasidic but decided early on that this wasn’t the life for her. Yet, in contrast…
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Culture November 11: A Bintel Brief – A JArts TheatreWorks Stage Reading
This event will take place on Wednesday, November 11 at 7:00 p.m. ET/ 4:00 p.m. PT. Click here to register. The JArts TheatreWorks group proudly presents a staged reading of “A Bintel Brief.” The Bintel Brief was a Yiddish advice column that started in the early 20th century by Abraham Cahan, the editor of Der…
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Yiddish World WATCH: So many Yiddish words for ‘imbecile’
Read this article in Yiddish On October 19th more than 1,000 people tuned in to watch the Forward’s first online gala. One of this year’s features was an online auction. One of the offerings people could bid on – a private Yiddish lesson with Forverts editor Rukhl Schaechter – went up to $720. The evening…
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Yiddish World Election night: Get up-to-the-minute Twitter updates in Yiddish
Read this article in Yiddish. Just like election night four years ago, the Forverts is planning to report and analyze the latest presidential election results in Yiddish as soon as the first polls close on November 3rd. State vote totals and trends will be updated throughout the evening on the Forverts Twitter account. For followers…
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Yiddish World Yiddish song decrying killing of George Floyd among winners of Bubbe Prizes
Read this article in Yiddish. On Saturday, October 24th, the winners of the Bubbe Prizes, an international Jewish music competition, were announced during an award ceremony broadcast on YouTube. The contest was organized as part of the international klezmer festival, “Kleztival”, held from October 17th through October 25th, in São Paulo, Brazil. 136 singers and…
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Yiddish World Israel’s national Yiddish story writing contest announces the three winners
Read this article in Yiddish Israel’s National Authority for Yiddish Culture has announced the three winning entries of its 2020 National Yiddish Story Writing Contest. Unlike last year, when the jury awarded a first, second and third prize, this year’s three winners will each receive a first-place award of 2,000 shekels (about 590 dollars). The…
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