Musician-ethnographer Michael Alpert to receive Dreaming in Yiddish Award
Michael Alpert has been a pioneering singer, multi-instrumentalist, ethnographer and educator for over five decades
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Yiddish World Violinist Deborah Strauss wins 2024 ‘Dreaming in Yiddish Award’
The award, named after the late singer Adrienne Cooper, supports artists who have contributed to the Yiddish cultural scene.
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Yiddish World Highly anticipated Yiddish New York festival will be online and on-site
Among the events: the screening of a classic film about two disabled lovers and a lecture about Palestinian Yiddish
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Books Books Briefing: A mysterious postcard illuminates a French family’s Holocaust history
Plus doppelgänger stories, new Jewish romance and a reboot of a Yiddish classic in this month's books newsletter
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Opinion Brave Jewish women inspired me to start the 9-5 movement
Before working women's activism was a movement, Yiddish-speaking women led the charge for worker's rights
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The Schmooze ‘Yiddish New York’ Puts Out Call to Artists
This year’s Yiddish New York art exhibition will open on December 8 at the Abrazo Interno Gallery in the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. The theme of the exhibition, which will run through December 28, will be “Trees of Life and Evil Eyes — A Contemporary Take on…
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Culture He Dreamed a Dream in Yiddish
Over the weekend, two events encapsulated Yiddish New York, the week-long festival of Yiddish arts, music and culture that served to replace a gaping hole in the calendar left by the demise of KlezKamp, which ended its 30-year run last year at this time. On Saturday night at the Museum of Jewish Heritage at Battery…
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Music Yiddish New York Transports Viewers to an Alternative Universe
During a week in which one can attend a revival of a Yiddish language musical from the golden era of Second Avenue (“The Golden Bride” by the National Yiddish Theatre-Folksbiene, at the Museum of Jewish Heritage through January 3); or enjoy a critically acclaimed updated Broadway staging of “Fiddler on the Roof,” the musical that…
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