Parisian theater stages Isaac Bashevis Singer’s ‘Golem’ in Yiddish and French
A diverse group of French, Israeli and Palestinian actors perform in Yiddish in Amos Gitai's contemporary staging
Yiddish World
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Roundtable talk about future of Yiddish with top-notch speakers
Panelists will discuss the interest in Yiddish among college students and the broader Jewish and non-Jewish community
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Five cities now have regular meet-ups in Yiddish
The initiative was launched as an alternative to other Yiddish events that are held mostly online today
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Online trivia league poses question about the Forverts
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Reviving Jewish folk tunes that were nearly lost forever
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Chaim Grade’s last Yiddish novel ‘Sons and Daughters’ finally available in English
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An online course on Hasidic creativity in Yiddish
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Course to explore Ukrainian-Yiddish dialect of the theater and the Breslov Hasidim
The dialect was once widely spoken not just in Ukraine, but in Romania, Moldova and Poland
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A short Yiddish horror film set at the start of the Hasidic movement
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