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Yiddish World Documentary portrays four generations of Jewish life in Lodz
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. from LOGTV FILMS on Vimeo. A new documentary film, “Still Life in Lodz,” by Polish-Jewish film director Slawomir Grunberg, portrays four generations of Jewish life in Lodz through the perspective of a still-life painting that belonged to a Jewish family and hung in their apartment from the…
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Yiddish World Baby boy born to klezmer star Daniel Kahn and his wife, Yeva Lapsker
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. This week, mazel tovs are echoing in Yiddish social media over the news that klezmer musician Daniel Kahn, star of the hit video of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” in Yiddish, and his wife, Yeva Lapsker, a translator and dancer, had their first child in Berlin. The boy was…
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Yiddish World WATCH: How to Make Delicious Spinach Latkes
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Latkes were not originally made with potatoes. In fact potatoes didn’t become widely available in Eastern Europe until the 19th century, while latkes harken back to the cuisine of ancient Israel. In Eastern Europe, these pancakes were originally made of quark cheese and buckwheat. A Sephardic equivalent,…
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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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