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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Yiddish World Yiddish song workshop among YIVO’s online mini-courses in English
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Yiddish World Violinist Deborah Strauss wins 2024 ‘Dreaming in Yiddish Award’
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Yiddish World A Yiddish parody of the Hebrew prayer for rain
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Yiddish World Lively course on Hasidic Yiddish at Yiddish Summer Weimar
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