‘Shtisel’ spin-off ‘Kugel’ richly portrays a diasporic Hasidic community
The creators even hired members of the Antwerp Jewish community, nonactors, to provide authentic local flavor
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Who was the audience for the rhyming Purim play?
This excerpt of Alef Kats’s ‘Purim shpil,’ presented in English, focuses on King Ahasuerus as a drunken fool
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Online trivia league poses question about the Forverts
When asked what language the paper is in, respondents gave various answers including Tagalog which is spoken in the Philippines
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Reviving Jewish folk tunes that were nearly lost forever
Musicologist Zisl Slepovitch publishes music recorded in the 1930s in today’s Belarus and Ukraine
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Chaim Grade’s last Yiddish novel ‘Sons and Daughters’ finally available in English
The book can be seen as a Holocaust memorial, as its events seem to foreshadow the upcoming annihilation of Polish Jewry
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An online course on Hasidic creativity in Yiddish
Former Hasid Eli Benedict will share and discuss Hasidic music, literature and the artistry of the “badchen,” the wedding entertainer
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Course to explore Ukrainian-Yiddish dialect of the theater and the Breslov Hasidim
The dialect was once widely spoken not just in Ukraine, but in Romania, Moldova and Poland
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A short Yiddish horror film set at the start of the Hasidic movement
Informed by Jewish folklore and the writings of Isaac Bashevis Singer, the film carries a mythic poetic quality
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Warsaw Yiddish summer seminar to focus on the Yiddish press
Topics include the Yiddish press in the first two decades after WWII and sports journalism in Yiddish
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Registration now open for the Yiddish summer program in Paris
Advanced students will read the writings of the Yiddish author and historian Rokhl Auerbach and classic Yiddish children’s poetry.
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Conference to promote the study of Eastern European Jewry in Ukraine
Papers are being sought on aspects of shtetl life, religious and intellectual thought and Yiddish language and culture
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