Yiddish

Israel urges rabbis to help stop Iranian spy recruitment after dozens of indictments - report

Iranian agents use a simple recruitment method, relying on "fishing expeditions and luck," gradually escalating their demands in exchange for "easy" money.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Rabbi Yigal Cohen light candles for the 45 victims who were killed in a stampede, at the scene of the fatal disaster, at Mt Meron, last week. May 06, 2021.
Psoy Korolenko sings during a recording session for Yiddish Glory.

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.

|BySHIRA LI BARTOV/JTA
Dov Bleich writing a Yiddish prayer for America’s next 250 years at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia.

America did not begin in a single language - opinion

Could Jonas Phillips have imagined what this experiment called America would look like 250 years on? 

|ByDOV BLEICH
A copy of Say It In Yiddish.

Hampshire College, incubator of Yiddish Book Center, pioneer in Holocaust studies, to close

The closure, which follows semester after years of financial troubles, won’t affect the Yiddish Book Center, which operates on land purchased from the college in Amherst, Massachusetts.

|ByANDREW LAPIN/JTA

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.

JULY 21, 2023ByNOA BARON/JTA
PARTICIPANTS GATHER for the annual Jerusalem March for Pride and Tolerance.

The way it really was! Some faces and facets of Yiddish humor

In Hebrew, Yiddish humor has found a different creativity. But within it, the castigation of hypocrisy and the sardonic wit, evolved and different, still sparkle.

JULY 1, 2023ByAVRAHAM AVI-HAI
A poster advertising Dzigan and Schumacher

How can you define Jewish humor? - opinion

Defining Jewish humor, Israeli humor, Yiddish humor, and where they differ and overlap.

JUNE 30, 2023ByPESSY KRAUSZ
American actor Gene Wilder performs during the rehearsal of a scene from Neil Simon’s ‘Laughter on the 23rd Floor’ in 1996.

Grapevine June 28, 2023: A missed anniversary

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

JUNE 28, 2023ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
ALON GOLDMAN (left), BMW marketing manager, at Delek Motors with Dr. Doron Kreiser and his racing car.

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.

JUNE 24, 2023ByBARRY DAVIS
‘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.

JUNE 23, 2023ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
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."

JUNE 21, 2023ByJACOB JUDAH/JTA
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? 

JUNE 17, 2023ByMORDECHAI BECK
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.

MAY 20, 2023ByJOSEPH SCUTTS
Zalmen Mlotek as musical conductor.

Grapevine May 14, 2023: A crisis of another kind

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

MAY 14, 2023ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
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.