Yiddish Book Center
With a New Director, Klezkanada Looks to the Future
Sebastian Schulman believes that Montreal is the best place to run a Yiddish cultural organization.
Fyvush Finkel Tells His Grandfather’s Best Joke
To commemorate his first yahrtzeit, watch the beloved comedian describe how he got his famous sense of humor.
Yiddish Book Center to Receive National Award
A version of this post appeared in Yiddish [here.][1]
RIP Mr. Spock
Leonard Nimoy, the actor famous for playing the logical Mr. Spock on the television show “Star Trek,” died on Friday at age 83, according to The New York Times.
‘Tent’ Creates At-Home Birthright for Jewish Culture
In 2014, The Yiddish Book Center will launch 10 ‘Tent’ programs around the country to educate individuals in their 20’s about Jewish culture.
Going Back to Chaim Grade
When Yiddish writer Chaim Grade died in 1982 he was highly regarded in Yiddish literary circles, though less known to English readers. Only a few of his novels had been translated, and hardly any of his poetry. He was also overshadowed by his more famous contemporary, Isaac Bashevis Singer, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978.
When Yiddish Came to North Korea
On September 4, 1965, Lin Jaldati stepped onto a stage in Pyongyang, North Korea and quite possibly became the first person in Communist North Korea to sing in Yiddish. As I will discuss in a July 13 talk at the Yiddish Book Center’s Paper Bridge Summer Arts Festival in Amherst, Mass., Jaldati and her husband, Eberhard Rebling, became the voices of leftist Yiddish culture throughout the Communist world at the height of the Cold War.
