In a new video produced by the Forverts, Berlin-based Yiddish singer and songwriter Daniel Kahn performs his own recent Yiddish translation of Bob Dylan’s 1967 song, “I Shall Be Released”. Kahn, lead singer of the band Daniel Kahn and the Painted Bird, previously translated and performed the late Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” in Yiddish, which appeared…
Read this article in Yiddish Ziv Pauli Harlow Siegel (Ziv Peleh, in Hebrew), a 12-year old sixth-grader at the Ramaz School, an Orthodox Jewish day school in Manhattan, has been an avid viewer of the new Forverts video series, “Yiddish Word Of the Day”, even using some of the words and phrases in his own…
Read this article in Yiddish. William Richard Harrel Jr, the African-American Harlem pastor, who was well-known in Brooklyn’s Hasidic community for his appearances in videos and skits that demonstrated his knowledge of Yiddish, died last week at the age 63 of coronavirus. Besides his longtime service as a pastor in Harlem, Harrel had another vocation,…
Yiddish has many ways of expressing affection, especially towards children. Three terms that you’ll learn here all have something unique in common! View more videos on our playlist here: https://youtu.be/JQ2Fuz8Ljbo To receive the Yiddish Word of the Day via email, sign up for the Yiddish in English newsletter here or subscribe to the Forward’s Youtube…
Read this article in Yiddish. The Forverts has launched a daily series of short informal video clips called Yiddish Word of the Day. The series, written and narrated by Forverts editor Rukhl Schaechter, aims to give non-Yiddish speakers an introduction to familiar Yiddish words and phrases and how they might be used in everyday situations….
Read this article in Yiddish Since its founding in 1925 in Vilna, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania) the YIVO Institute has collected personal histories from Jews so that future historians would be able to explore how world events impacted Jewish life. Through revolutions, wars, genocides, famine and yes, epidemics, YIVO has always aimed to ensure that…
Read this article in Yiddish The first chapter of Harry Potter in Yiddish can now be heard online, read by translator Arun Viswanath. Although Viswanath reads the narration in his native Ukrainian Yiddish, he acts out certain characters’ dialogue in their respective dialects. Hagrid’s thick West Country accent of the original is transformed in the…
Read this article in Yiddish. Like many people whose lives are tightly intertwined with other family members, the COVID-19 social distancing restrictions have left me feeling like the rug was pulled out from under me – especially since my husband, Leon, and I had been living what many grandparents only dream about: three generations under…
Read this article in Yiddish. The longtime teacher, camp director, Yiddish radio host and cultural activist Mikhl Baran died on Friday, April 17th, at his home in Queens. He was 97 years old. Baran was born in Oszmiana (Oshmene, in Yiddish), Poland in 1922. In a 2018 profile he recalled the tensions in the town…
Read this article in Yiddish. The non-profit organization that provides free, traditional burials for the Jewish poor has had to buy a massive trailer to manage the high volume of deaths caused by the coronavirus pandemic. It holds more than a dozen bodies, and the organization doesn’t have enough people or time to bury them…
Read this article in Yiddish. An international cadre of musicians, singers and dancers took part in a Third Seder conducted over Zoom. More than 1,100 people watched the program, which was organized live over Facebook by Rabbi Avram Mlotek and Moishe Rosenfeld of Golden Land Concerts and Connections. Hundreds of others have since viewed it…
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