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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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Yiddish World Yiddish Cultural Seders Provide Alternative Way to Celebrate Exodus From Egypt
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. In addition to the traditional Seders that take place on the first two nights of Passover, Yiddish-speaking New Yorkers have celebrated alternative Yiddish cultural Seders for decades. The most well-known of them, the “Driter Seder” (Third Seder), which takes place during the intermediate days of Passover, was…
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Yiddish World Celebrating 120 Years of the Forverts: Jewish Housewives Urged To Buy Long Island Ducks
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Few people know that Long Island was once a national center of duck farming with hundreds of active poultry farms. Digging through Purim issues of yesteryear our archivist Chana Pollack recently came upon this amusing ad that ran in The Forward on March 5th, 1925, telling Jewish…
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Yiddish World Learn To Be A Yiddish ‘Jester,’ In Germany
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Badkhonem, traditional Eastern-European Jewish wedding entertainers who are part clown, part master of ceremonies and part musical entertainment, are a rare sight these days outside of the Hasidic world. So where should you study if you’d like to learn to be a Badkhn today? Apparently Germany. The…
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Culture To Preserve Sounds of Immigrant America, Ellis Island Museum Seeks Yiddish-Speaking Volunteers
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. The Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration has, in its database, more than 8,780 sound recordings from the early 20th century both by and about people considered to be “outsiders” in the United States. Included in that group were immigrants. Now, the Museum is trying to make…
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