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Film & TV WATCH: New Documentary Recounts The Search For Isaac Babel
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. The film “Finding Babel” portrays theater professor Andrei Malaev-Babel’s journey across the former USSR seeking traces of his grandfather, Russian-Jewish author Isaac Babel. The film was recently released on Vimeo in English-, Russian- and Ukrainian-language versions. In the English version of the film, Isaac Babel’s quotes are…
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Yiddish World Erotic Yiddish Poet Celia Dropkin’s Translator Discussed Her Complex Work On The Radio
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. The daring and often disturbing erotic poetry of Celia Dropkin has become more accessible in recent years, thanks to the appearance, in 2014, of first collection of her works in English translation. That collection, The Acrobat, led to wider interest in Dropkin’s poetry, partially inspiring the creation…
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Yiddish World WATCH: Shira Gorshman, Yiddish Writer Who Portrayed Women As Folk Heroes, Discusses Her Life
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. In this video, master storyteller Shira Gorshman describes her impoverished childhood in a Lithuanian shtetl. She vividly describes her brutal stepfather, her very competent but combative grandmother and her adoring grandfather, who was the first person to introduce her to the beauty of the outdoors. Imbued with…
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Yiddish World VIDEO: Watch Us Make Roast Chicken And Pilaf With Noodles For Shabbos
I am SO making this delicious-looking chicken and rice pilaf next Friday. I just watched this video — in Yiddish (with English subtitles) — from our Yiddish Forverts editor-in-chief Rukhl Schaechter and culinary historian Eve Jochnowitz. On the outside, the chicken looks like your basic, but Schaechter stuffs it with half an orange and two…
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Yiddish World Yiddish Summer Weimar Will Highlight the Cultures of Israel
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. This year the theme of the annual festival, Yiddish Summer Weimar, will be “The Other Israel: Seeing Unseen Diasporas.” Besides its usual programming the five-week celebration of Ashkenazi culture will also include a series of concerts and workshops dedicated to the various cultures of Israel and the…
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Yiddish World VIDEO: What’s a Yiddish Singer Doing in Mongolia?
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Watch the star of the Mongolian version of American Idol, Amalia Rubin, describe her fascinating life in the land of Genghis Khan in this Yiddish Forward exclusive.
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The Schmooze Inside The Haunting, Erotic Yiddish Poetry of Celia Dropkin
A version of this post originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Most people associate Yiddish poetry with grandmothers, immigrant workers or the horrors of the Holocaust, if they have associations at all. What certainly does not come to mind are frank and graphic descriptions of sexual acts. That may soon change thanks to a new…
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Yiddish World Beloved Singer Nechama Lifshitz Has Died
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Nechama Lifshitz, the popular singer who defied the censors by singing in Yiddish and Hebrew throughout the Soviet Union, serving as a deep inspiration for the so-called Jews of Silence under Communist rule, has died at the age of 89. Nechama Lifshitz was born in Kaunas, Lithuania…
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