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.
Yiddish World
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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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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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Psychologist, writer and Yiddish culture activist Michael Fox has died
In addition to a memoir, Fox authored two plays, a children's book and three novels.
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The concert where Paul Robeson was warned not to sing in Yiddish
When Soviet government leaders invited the singer to give a concert, he did something they didn't expect.
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‘Bad Yiddish’ is theme of the 2025 virtual Yiddish conference, Farbindungen
In line with the topic is a lecture on Yiddish literature about Warsaw’s prewar Yiddish-speaking criminals.
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Tel Aviv arts center to host event on Yiddish women’s poetry
The inspiration for the event at Neve Schechter was a poem by poet Celia Dropkin about New York's urban experience
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A young artist’s search for the long-lost script of a Yiddish play
A new play aims to counteract stereotypes promoted by many news articles about the Yiddishist community
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Culture Jimmy Carter, Bubby and me
What happened when my grandmother took my little sister and me to President Carter's inauguration
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Frankie’s Menorah (a Yiddish Hanukkah story)
The story, presented here in English translation, takes place during the California gold rush of 1849
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MLK Day concert to include civil rights songs and Yiddish folk songs
The event will take place in a synagogue where Martin Luther King Jr. once spoke
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