Strong start for Virginia’s first Yiddish culture festival
Richmond Yiddish Week kicks off with a standing-room-only concert and a well-attended children’s program
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You can now enjoy the Yiddish Book Center’s exhibit on your phone
Here’s a selection of photos, videos and recordings from their permanent exhibition to get you started
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A hypnotic new album inspired by a unique Yiddish recording
The ‘Rose Cohen Experience’ makes use of ambient recordings, an old sewing machine and a women’s prayer
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‘Faust’ author Goethe’s fascination with Yiddish
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Teens, seniors explore Ashkenazi traditions at Yiddish New York festival
This year’s festival had over 100 speakers, 700 participants and 200 workshops and sessions on various aspects of Yiddish culture.
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Virginia-based Yiddishists lead first Yiddish culture festival in Richmond
This is one of many Yiddish festivals that took place this year around the U.S., including Seattle and Albuquerque
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Puppet Monty Pickle is guest on the Forward’s ‘Yiddish Word of the Day’
The Monty Pickle Show is a puppet comedy created by the producers of ‘Sesame Street‘ and ‘Fraggle Rock‘
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This Pennsylvania rabbi fuses liberal Judaism with Hasidic Yiddish
Born to a Christian mother, Rabbi Cody Bahir had a remarkable journey to the rabbinate that included studying Chinese Buddhism
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What’s a gender-segregated Hasidic pilgrimage like?
An anthropologist and a Hasidic linguist will describe it at the Yiddish New York festival
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When roast goose was a Hanukkah delicacy, and latkes were fried in its schmaltz
They were slaughtered before Hanukkah in order to render enough fat to last through the winter, when butter was scarce.
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Praise for soccer star Leo Messi in new album of Yiddish songs for kids
Songwriter Jordan Wax’s previous album had heavier subject matter but here he shows that Yiddish culture can be silly, too
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