VIDEO: Playwright Jacob Gordin brought realism into the Yiddish theater
This month marks 170 years since the birth of the playwright who translated "The Kreutzer Sonata" and "King Lear" into Yiddish
Yiddish World
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A very New York story: Shlepping up the stairs when there’s no elevator
Growing up in a Jewish housing complex without elevators seemed like a hassle to the author but those steps kept her healthy
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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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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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See what’s going on in the new Yiddish community calendar
The calendar includes both in-person and online events, both in English and in Yiddish
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Yiddish literature scholar David Roskies’ extraordinary archive now accessible online
The collection includes studies on classic writers of Yiddish literature, teaching notes and irreplaceable memoirs
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Yiddish linguist Dovid Braun is appointed YIVO’s Academic Advisor in Yiddish
Braun has instituted more intensive Yiddish language courses in the fall and spring semesters
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Curator of ‘Living Yiddish in New York’ exhibit gives you a quick tour
The exhibit at the Jewish Theological Seminary includes materials on the history of New York’s Yiddish-speaking left
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Looking back on a revolutionary movement to educate Orthodox Jewish girls
Academics are finally recognizing the extraordinary influence of the Bais Yaakov schools
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The experimental sound of the Hutchins Consort meets klezmer and Jewish music of the Renaissance
A set of scientifically designed violins so rare that most are in museums demonstrated their unique properties at a California concert
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The art teacher who inspired Marc Chagall to paint Jewish men and women
Yehuda Pen showed his students that a specifically Jewish “fine” art was both possible and desirable.
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