Yiddish

There was always a third Singer: Yiddish literary diamonds revealed - review

Esther Kreitman, sister of Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, wrote powerful Yiddish fiction capturing Jewish life, struggle, and survival.

Esther Kreitman (nee Singer), born in 1891 in Biłgoraj, Poland, to a rabbinic family, became a Yiddish-language novelist and short story writer.
‘To be worthy, every individual must work on himself.’

Parashat Vayikra: Mutual responsibility

 L to R: Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, US President Donald Trump against backdrop of respective flags and missile strikes.

Living on pins and needles: Israel faces uncertainty at the prospect of war - opinion

Irene Aue-Ben-David

Dr. Irene Aue-Ben-David: Preserving the history of German Jewry - interview


Classic Yiddish tale 'Wandering Stars' gets Jerusalem musical adaptation

It has taken more than a century for the Wandering Stars to make it into bona-fide theatrical form, but the Jerusalem-based Encore Educational Theatre Company is doing just that.

 ‘WANDERING STARS’ tells the tale of a love lost in the shtetl and refound in New York.

Grapevine June 23, 2023: New Jerusalem icon

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 JERUSALEM MAYOR Moshe Lion with Shlomo Hasid.

Glasgow's Yiddish-speaking cafe shuts down after alleging antisemitism from 'leftists'

The cafe said in a statement published on its website that members of its collective were suffering from “burnout” due to the stresses of “struggling under capitalism and kyriarchy."

 A cup of coffee (Illustrative)

The last Yiddish artist: Work of Anatoly Kaplan on display in Jerusalem

Who was Anatoly Kaplan and why has he been honored with this retrospective in a city he would never get to visit? 

 Anatoly Kaplan and his wife, Yevgenia.

Meet Zalmen Mlotek, US Yiddish Theater artistic director

I recently interviewed Zalmen in New York about his life, upbringing and career that he has been so passionate about his whole life.

 Zalmen Mlotek as musical conductor.

Grapevine May 14, 2023: A crisis of another kind

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 ANGELA MERKEL, then German chancellor, arrives with her spokesman Steffen Seibert for a news conference after a meeting with governors of former East German states at the Chancellery in Berlin, in 2020.

Grapevine May 3, 2023: A different aspect of Liverpool

The coronation of King Charles and his Queen Consort Camilla is providing plenty of fodder for media outlets in Britain and around the world.

 RUTH BONDY is congratulated by Amos Horev, president of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, in 1974, on her winning the Yitzhak Sadeh Prize for the book ‘The Emissary: The Life of Enzo Sereni.’

‘The Last Yiddish poet’ Rivka Basman Ben-Haim dies

She started writing poetry at the camp as a way of boosting her fellow inmates’ morale, and managed to smuggle some of her poems out in her mouth.

 RIVKA BASMAN BEN-HAIM

My grandmother was a 'Sherlock Holmes' but couldn't solve antisemitism

Now is as welcome a time as any to celebrate Jewish life, learn a Yiddish song and discover the lessons of history along the way.

YIDDISH COLLECTION from Barbara Shaw Gifts.

March comes in with a roar of new Yiddish music

This month a collection of new Yiddish songs will be performed for the first time in America at a Manhattan museum.

 A guitar lies across a piano.