Rukhl Schaechter is the Yiddish editor of the Forward and the producer of the YouTube series, “Yiddish Word of the Day.” She loves cooking, Israeli folk-dancing and talking to her grandchildren.
Rukhl SchaechterYiddish/Forverts Editor
By Rukhl Schaechter
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Yiddish World Now streaming: Musician’s fascinating journey to find Ukrainian Jewish folksongs
In the 1920s, after the horrific pogroms that followed the Russian Revolution, a Jewish musician and ethnomusicologist named Moyshe Beregovsky, also known as Moisei Iakovlevich Beregovskii, travelled across Ukraine with a phonograph in hand, seeking to record the authentic Yiddish music of Ukrainian Jewry. Among the hundreds of songs that he collected were Yiddish folk…
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Yiddish World Yiddish Wordle designers create a version for the Forverts
To play Vertl, click here. On February 10, Vertl – the Yiddish version of the hugely popular game, Wordle – came under the auspices of the Forverts, enabling the game to reach many more players. Initially, there were two Yiddish forms of Wordle, both launched in mid-January: one created by Masha Leyfer and Gabrielle Taylor,…
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Yiddish World YidLife Crisis comedy show, ‘Pandemish,’ streaming soon
When people today use the term “Yiddish comedy”, they usually mean a standup act or film in English with Yiddish words tacked on for comic effect. The online comedy web series, “YidLife Crisis”, created and starring Eli Batalion and Jamie Elman, is completely different. As many of you saw with their hilarious clip on Jewish…
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Yiddish World VIDEO: Toddler’s take on the burning bush – in Yiddish (with subtitles)
To see subtitles in English, start playing the video, then press the CC button. To see subtitles in Yiddish, press the Settings button (looks like a wheel), then Subtitles, then Yiddish. My two-year old grandson, Leyzer, loves listening to Bible stories. Last week his parents, Naftali and Jessye Ejdelman, quizzed him on the scene where…
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Yiddish World Lecture: How Yiddish became one of the languages used at the POLIN Museum
On Monday, December 27, folklore expert Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett will discuss the history of how Yiddish was included as one of the languages utilized at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. The talk, to be presented in English, is part of the week-long annual festival, “Yiddish New York” to take place…
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Yiddish World VIDEO: Make these bagels yourself and you won’t even miss the cream cheese!
There may be a cream cheese shortage but by making these delicious bagels yourself, you won’t even miss the cheese.
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Yiddish World VIDEO: Tania Grinberg singing Yiddish Hanukkah song, ‘Eight Candles’
A new video has been released, featuring the Brazilian composer and singer Tania Grinberg singing the Yiddish Hanukkah song, “Akht likhtlekh” (Eight Candles). The song, which was written by the late Yiddish poet and songwriter, Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, has a folksy quality to it and is easy enough for kids to learn. The video, which was…
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Yiddish World VIDEO: Polina Shepherd sings a new Yiddish song, ‘The Tempest Breakers’
This week, a video of a new Yiddish song, Di Veln (The Tempest Breakers), was posted on YouTube, performed by singer-songwriter Polina Shepherd, with piano accompaniment. The lyrics are by the late expressionist poet, Abraham Nahum Stencl, and the melody and arrangement – by Shepherd herself. The video was produced by the Forverts. Abraham Nahum…
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