Yiddish
Lost Holocaust music, nearly erased by Stalin, goes on tour in Asia
The story emerged from 263 songs recorded in 1944 by Soviet Jewish ethnomusicologist Moisei Beregovsky from Ukrainian Jews newly freed from Romanian occupation in 1944.
America did not begin in a single language - opinion
Hampshire College, incubator of Yiddish Book Center, pioneer in Holocaust studies, to close
There was always a third Singer: Yiddish literary diamonds revealed - review
Can literature soothe the trauma of war?
The Jerusalem Post Podcast with Tamar Uriel-Beeri and Sarah Ben-Nun.
Grapevine, January 24, 2024: An error of omission
Movers and shakers in Israeli society.
The real Auschwitz commandant — and Yiddish resistance song — behind ‘The Zone of Interest’
"The Zone of Interest,” which won the Grand Prix at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, never shows the inside of the camp’s operations.
Ruth Seymour, public radio pioneer devoted to Jewish culture, dies at 88
Ruth Seymour will also be remembered as a trailblazer in public radio’s embrace of digital platforms.
'Unearthed': Holocaust history on the trail of a Yiddish theater actress - review
The author took on the role of the memorial candle with devotion, and as she grew up became determined to learn everything she could about her lost cousins, especially her cousin Franya.
Yiddish book center unveils new core exhibit
How do you tell the story of a language without a country, and of a culture that lost a majority of its purveyors in a little over a decade of madness?
Israeli Hebrew didn’t kill Yiddish, as new NYC exhibit shows it gave a new nest to live - opinion
At the beginning of the 20th century, Yiddish and Hebrew were rivals to become the language of the future Jewish state.
NYT op-ed: Hebrew symbolizes 'far-right Israeli militarism'
Israel's official X account called the writer who bashed Hebrew "Meshuggeneh [crazy person]."
Andrea Pancur, singer who bridged German and Yiddish song traditions, dies at 54
Although raised Catholic, Pancur felt an affinity with the Yiddish musical culture that thrived for centuries across Europe before its devastation by the Holocaust.
How Yiddish taught me to embrace the joy and defiance of being queer
As queerness is increasingly persecuted in the United States, Yiddish culture has been my refuge: a culture with no country that is well-suited for people being rejected by theirs.
