Read this article in Yiddish The Forverts has released a music video featuring Isabel Frey performing Morris Rosenfeld’s haunting lament for Jewish workers, “Mayn Rue-Plats”, (My Resting Place). Rosenfeld, one of a group of American Yiddish labor poets known as the “sweatshop poets,” was a longtime Forverts staff writer. His poems, chief among them “My…
Read this article in Yiddish Each fall the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw hosts a culinary festival Tisz (“table” in Yiddish), highlighting how closely Polish and Jewish culinary traditions are intertwined. This year’s program, to take place from September 30 to October 4, will include both in-person workshops in Warsaw…
Read this article in Yiddish Chayele Porus Palevsky, a longtime stalwart of New York’s Yiddish cultural scene, who worked tirelessly to preserve the memory of Jewish Vilna, died on September 20, the second day of Rosh Hashanah. Palevsky, one of the very last surviving Jews to have fought among the partisans of Vilna, passed away…
Read this article in Yiddish The Institute of Museum and Library Services has awarded the YIVO Institute a grant of $119,433 to preserve four collections of materials related to the history of Yiddish theater and Jewish music. The grant was awarded through the federal program, Save America’s Treasures, which provides funding for the preservation of…
As Rosh Hashanah approaches, it’s a great opportunity to learn some common Yiddish words and expressions related to the holiday. So this week, two clips of my YouTube series, Yiddish Word of the Day, are devoted to the Jewish new year. The first one covers some of its customs, like sending greeting cards to family…
Jews make teiglach, small knots of dough boiled in honey, to wish each other a sweet new year
Read this article in Yiddish Despite the brutal suppression of their nascent pro-democracy movement, protesters continue to fill the streets of Minsk and other Belarusian cities, calling for an end to Alexander Lukashenko’s 26-year dictatorial reign. While some Belarusians in New York are protesting in front of their homeland’s embassy, others in the diaspora are…
Read this article in Yiddish Two Jewish organizations in Cape Town, South Africa, are hosting a special two-hour event on Sunday afternoon, August 23, called “The Survival and Revival of Yiddish in the 21st Century”. The first hour will be devoted to a discussion about Yiddish today, moderated by Hollywood Reporter columnist Scott Feinberg and…
Read this article in Yiddish here. Last year, to get to his classes at the YIVO summer program in Yiddish language and culture, Dan Shore took the 6 train from the 92nd Street Y’s student dorm on the Upper East Side to the Center for Jewish History’s building on 16th street. This year, his commute…
Read this article in Yiddish As I arrived in Washington Heights to pick up my 3-year old grandson for my weekly babysitting gig, I decided that this was going to be a different kind of ride. After buckling him in and settling myself behind the wheel, I told him that instead of letting him watch…
Read this article in Yiddish Rachmil Bryks (1912 – 1974) dedicated his literary oeuvre to one theme: The Holocaust, which he survived in the Lodz Ghetto and German slave labor work camps. A new English translation compiles three of his autobiographical works. Part I — “Those Who Didn’t Survive” — tells the story of the…
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