Forverts Staff
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Yiddish World Zoominar: What makes Yiddish humor so Jewish?
Yiddish comedians and experts on Yiddish comedy spoke with Rukhl Schaechter, editor of the Forverts, about their work during a Zoominar organized by the Forward on Monday. Panelists Hy Wolfe, Michael Wex, Shane Baker, Allen Lewis Rickman and Yelena Shmulenson traded jokes and performed short monologues characteristic of Yiddish humor. Wolfe, longtime Yiddish theater actor…
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Yiddish World WATCH: Zoominar about Yiddish song today with Lorin Sklamberg and other Yiddish music figures
Read this article in Yiddish. On Monday, June 22nd, Forverts editor Rukhl Schaechter moderated a panel discussion with Yiddish singers Lorin Sklamberg, Daniel Kahn, Sarah Gordon, Michael Alpert and folksong expert Itzik Gottesman on the question, “Why are Yiddish Songs So Popular Now?” Each participant spoke about their perception of Yiddish music today and what…
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Yiddish World Click here for our interactive Yiddish crossword puzzles
Crossword puzzle fans who know some Yiddish can now do Yiddish puzzles directly on their computer screens and immediately check if their answers are correct as they work on the puzzle.
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Yiddish World Bob Dylan’s “I Shall Be Released” in Yiddish
In a new video produced by the Forverts, Berlin-based Yiddish singer and songwriter Daniel Kahn performs his own recent Yiddish translation of Bob Dylan’s 1967 song, “I Shall Be Released”. Kahn, lead singer of the band Daniel Kahn and the Painted Bird, previously translated and performed the late Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” in Yiddish, which appeared…
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Yiddish World Forverts video series, Yiddish Word of the Day, has 12-year old fan
Read this article in Yiddish Ziv Pauli Harlow Siegel (Ziv Peleh, in Hebrew), a 12-year old sixth-grader at the Ramaz School, an Orthodox Jewish day school in Manhattan, has been an avid viewer of the new Forverts video series, “Yiddish Word Of the Day”, even using some of the words and phrases in his own…
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Yiddish World Listen to the first chapter of Harry Potter in Yiddish
Read this article in Yiddish The first chapter of Harry Potter in Yiddish can now be heard online, read by translator Arun Viswanath. Although Viswanath reads the narration in his native Ukrainian Yiddish, he acts out certain characters’ dialogue in their respective dialects. Hagrid’s thick West Country accent of the original is transformed in the…
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Yiddish World Mikhl Baran, American Yiddish cultural icon, who fought Nazis at the age of 17, has passed away
Read this article in Yiddish. The longtime teacher, camp director, Yiddish radio host and cultural activist Mikhl Baran died on Friday, April 17th, at his home in Queens. He was 97 years old. Baran was born in Oszmiana (Oshmene, in Yiddish), Poland in 1922. In a 2018 profile he recalled the tensions in the town…
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Yiddish World WATCH: Third Seder performed by Klezmer stars – now on Youtube
Read this article in Yiddish. An international cadre of musicians, singers and dancers took part in a Third Seder conducted over Zoom. More than 1,100 people watched the program, which was organized live over Facebook by Rabbi Avram Mlotek and Moishe Rosenfeld of Golden Land Concerts and Connections. Hundreds of others have since viewed it…
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