Listen to a passionate performance of Yiddish art song
David Childs learned the music of composer Lazar Weiner from his son Yehudi
Yiddish World
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Star-studded cast presents show about birth of Yiddish theater, July 11 in NYC
The one-night performance includes songs, theatrical scenes and stories in English and Yiddish with supertitles
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Jews have their own creole language — in the middle of the Caribbean
Judaeo-Papiamento is spoken by the Sephardic Jewish community of Curaçao
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Smithsonian festival to include Yiddish concert, blintzes and pickling workshops
The annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival celebrates contemporary cultural traditions from around the world.
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My embarrassing moment in a Yiddish-speaking men’s clothing store
In the 1950’s, this neighborhood had so many Holocaust survivors, even Italian shopkeepers understood Yiddish
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Yiddish radio interview with literature scholar Avraham Novershtern
The professor emeritus from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem now serves as director of Beit Sholem Aleichem in Tel Aviv
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Bubbe and the pimp who lived upstairs
My grandmother’s neighbor was a skinny, quiet, nebbishy man. But he had a heck of a secret
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Statue of Sholem Aleichem unveiled at Tel Aviv University
The sculpture is a replica of one that stands in the historical Jewish quarter of Moscow
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No, British fish and chips is not a Jewish invention
Jews fleeing the Inquisition allegedly introduced the fried fish used in this iconic dish
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VIDEO: In honor of International Yoga Day, watch these yoga poses in Yiddish
Instructor Reyna Schaechter demonstrates a variety of poses before a stunning north Californian landscape
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Why music scholar Henry Sapoznik returned a painting he won at a raffle
'The Wedding' is one of hundreds of paintings that self-taught Jewish artist Mayer Kirshenblatt did of his hometown, Opatow
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