“Moses Montefiore: Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero,” was recently nominated for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. A version of this article originally appeared in Yiddish here. Moses Montefiore: Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero By Abigail Green Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 560 pages, $35.00 Was Sir Moses Haim Montefiore the first Jewish celebrity of…
Liana Finck is adapting old Yiddish press self-help columns into a book. This week, she’s letting us peek behind the curtain at her source material. On Monday, she looked at the first two pages of her comic. Today, she takes a look at the second story. Her blog posts are being featured this week on…
Liana Finck’s Bintel Brief comic is currently being serialized in the Forward. Her blog posts are being featured this week on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book Council and My Jewish Learning’s Author Blog Series. For more information on the series, please visit: This is the first page of a comic book I’m…
Bernard Bellush, a labor historian and activist, has died of natural causes at age 94. Bernard Bellush, who was an editor of the the Forverts’s English supplement and served on the Forward Association’s board, died Friday night at a hospital, his wife, Jewel Bellush, wrote in a message to friends. Bernard Bellush was raised in…
Translated by Miriam Hoffman and Beverly Koenigsberg This story originally appeared in the Forverts of August 30, 1985. In addition to the 200 major languages currently in use, new forms of expression continue to emerge. These new means of communication deal for the most part with specialized professions — such as linguistics, psychology, statistics and…
A version of this post appeared in Yiddish here. To perform Yiddish theater today, you need a lot of money, or a lot of ambition. The New Yiddish Rep theater company, led by David Mandelbaum, has the latter. Mandelbaum is an actor and director who also plays most of the other roles a theater company…
A version of this post appeared in Yiddish. In May 1951, a group of immigrants to Israel, mainly Holocaust survivors, founded a social, political and cultural group based on the model of the General Jewish Labour Bund of pre-war Poland. That group, which became the Israeli branch of the Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring, bought a building…
Courtesy of Cinema Guild A version of this post appeared in Yiddish here. It is not by chance that Vadim Jendreyko’s documentary, “The Woman With the 5 Elephants,” about an 87-year-old Russian-to-German translator, opens with the image of a train crossing a bridge. As the lights from the windows of the moving train flicker through…
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