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Yiddish World Sholem Aleichem Center Seeking Donations for Essential Roof Renovation
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. “Gevald!” (For those not in the know, that’s Yiddish for “Help!”) So began a recent message on the Sholem Aleichem Center’s Facebook page, informing fans of the Bronx Yiddish cultural center’s dire need of a new roof. To raise the $20,000 required for the renovation, the Center…
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Yiddish World Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary Now Online
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. After three years of hard work and months of beta testing, the League for Yiddish has launched an online version of its popular Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary. Unlike the dictionary’s printed edition, which can only be consulted by looking up English words to find their Yiddish equivalents, the…
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Yiddish World Library of Congress Seeking Yiddish-Speaking Student
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. The Library of Congress in Washington DC, the de-facto national library of the United States, is the largest library in the world. Among the 38 million books, 70 million manuscripts and countless photographs, maps, recordings and letters in its holdings (some 167 million items in total), are…
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Yiddish World All Episodes of Our Yiddish Cooking Shows
Many of the Forverts’ Yiddish cooking shows starring Rukhl Schaechter and Eve Jochnowitz, “Eat in Good Health,” can be found on the Forward’s website by clicking here. The rest of the episodes are available on Youtube by clicking here. Another Forverts’ cooking show series, “Timeless Delicacies,” can be viewed on Youtube here.
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Culture Here Are The Winners Of Israel’s National Yiddish Story Contest
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. In July, Israel’s National Authority for Yiddish Culture launched the first government-sponsored Yiddish-language writing contest ever held in the Jewish state. This week, the authority announced the three winners. Ethel Niborski, age 17, won first prize for her short story “Letters to a Blind Grandfather,” for which…
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The Schmooze WATCH: The Curious History of Rosh Hashanah Cards
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. This new video, a collaboration between the Israeli Youtube channel Unpacked and the Forverts, highlights some unknown facts about the venerable tradition of sending Rosh Hashanah greeting cards. Few people know, for instance, that the first Rosh Hashanah cards appeared in Germany in the 1400s or that…
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Culture WATCH: The Timeless Yiddish Love Song, ‘It’s Dark Outside’
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Adah Hetko is a Yiddish singer who adapts classic songs from the collections of ethnomusicologists such as Ruth Rubin and gives them a modern feel. In this recording, produced by the Forverts, she performs her take on the folk song “In Droysn Iz Fintster” (“It’s Dark Outside”)…
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Culture How The Forverts Covered The Peekskill Riots In 1949
Editor’s Note: During the Peekskill riots, in late August, 1949, a violent KKK and fascist mob attacked attendees of a planned concert by Paul Robeson in Westchester County, New York. The violence spread outward, and a number of black and Jewish residents of New York City and Westchester were injured. The following is a translation…
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