Celebrating the digital launch of an iconic Yiddish song collection
The searchable database of 400 Yiddish songs is based on the songbooks compiled by the late husband-and-wife team, Yosl and Chana Mlotek.
Yiddish World
-
I grew up Jewish on a chicken farm. This book gets it right.
The surprising story of Holocaust survivors in rural New Jersey
-
-
They’re your cool friend’s favorite funk band. Their frontman released a klezmer album
Yiddishe Pirat, the project from Vulfpeck’s Jack Stratton, revives klezmer music for a younger, funkier audience
The Latest
-
The history of Orthodox Jewry needs to be told. Here’s what two scholars are doing about it.
The Birnbaum collection has thousands of letters from Albert Einstein, Theodore Herzl and other dignitaries, jammed into manila envelopes.
-
This upcoming Yiddish concert is a clarion call for a better world
Josh Waletzky’s musical work will be performed in New York on March 26 by leading Yiddish singers
-
Books Charles Dickens: A friend of the Jews?
A 1912 Yiddish newspaper article tried to simplify Charles Dickens' relationship with the Jews. The real story is messier, but far more interesting.
-
What did Purim costumes look like in a pre-war Polish shtetl?
The boys in these photos are putting on a Purim shpiel (Purim play) in Apt (Opatow), Poland.
-
Dungeons & Dragons in Yiddish
The legendary tabletop game is now modified for play in Yiddish.
-
Books Keep a ton of notebooks? Mazel tov: You’re part of an old Jewish tradition
The Jewish respect for the printed word is well reflected in the adage: a Jewish thief steals only books.
-
This artist paints portraits of today’s Yiddishists
Three works by Los Angeles-based artist Silvia Wagensberg are on display at UCLA Hillel.
-
A remarkable album of soulful Hasidic melodies performed by women
Hasidic men have been singing these tunes, called nigunim, for centuries, especially in the presence of their Rebbe.
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Culture RFK Jr.’s poems to Olivia Nuzzi are peak cringe — so were King Solomon’s
- 2
News DNA test kits spark a surge of online conversions to Judaism in the U.S.
- 3
Opinion What does Mamdani’s response to synagogue protests mean for Jews? No one will like the answer.
- 4
Culture She was a dancer who leapt to the top of her field — then the Trump administration fired her
In Case You Missed It
-
Yiddish סאָל רובינעק שפּילט ווערסיע פֿון זיך אַליין אין פּיעסע „דאָס שפּילן שײַלאָק“ Saul Rubinek plays a version of himself in ‘Playing Shylock’
אין דער פּיעסע אַנטפּלעקט ער די פּראָבלעמען אַרום שפּילן שעקספּירס באַרימטן ייִדישן אַנטאַגאָניסט — באמת, אַ פּיעסע אין אַ פּיעסע.
-
Fast Forward Hasidic leader defends support for Mamdani. ‘I’m taking beatings to save you’
-
Communications Joel F. Brown named next Chairman of the Forward Association Board of Directors
-
Film & TV Why do people want ‘Zootopia 2’ to be about Israel?
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
