Yiddish poetry is coming to Yeshivat Hadar
Basya Schechter and Avi Fox-Rosen will perform Itsik Manger’s ‘Bible Songs’ at the renowned institution in Manhattan
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Yiddish World Tel Aviv arts center to host event on Yiddish women’s poetry
The inspiration for the event at Neve Schechter was a poem by poet Celia Dropkin about New York's urban experience
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Yiddish World New Los Angeles Yiddish scene continues a long tradition
Many Yiddish writers came to L.A. at the turn of the 20th century as part of a health-seeking movement
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Yiddish World VIDEO: This moving film about seven young Yiddish scholars may surprise you
In 'The Secrets of Yiddish Poetry,' director Nurith Aviv explores the role that Yiddish plays in their work and lives
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Yiddish World Zelda Kahan Newman, translator of Yiddish women’s poetry, has died
In addition to her books on renowned women poets, she wrote linguistic papers on contemporary Hasidic Yiddish
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Yiddish World What popular children’s poet Kadya Molodowsky wrote about her mother
A recurrent theme in her work include the lives of Jewish women and girls and Jewish tradition in the face of modernity.
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Yiddish World Online ‘zine’ unites young Yiddishists
Yiddish activist Sarah Biskowitz and Yiddish TikTok star Cameron Bernstein are building a home for new voices through ‘Yiddishistke’
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Culture This visionary Jewish writer had several aliases, so it’s hard to know who she really was
There was a brilliance to Anna Margolin's writing, but also many great mysteries
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