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
‘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.
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.
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.
Remembering family names is hard when you have so many - opinion
At the beginning, it was relatively easy. He could handle the names of his two kids, their spouses and seven grandchildren. But it all became a bit more unwieldy.
The timeless debate
The book shows that the religion v. secularism debate transcends different eras
A Yiddish treasure with a soap opera backstory
This week YIVO and the NLI will announce the completion of the digitization of writer Chaim Grade's entire archive.
Germany celebrates UNESCO World Heritage listing for Yiddish and Ashkenazi culture birthplace
The sites in the upper part of the Rhine River valley are known as the origin point of Ashkenazi culture and where the Yiddish language first began to develop over 1,000 years ago.
Jewish spirit haunts Hasidic Brooklyn in ‘The Offering,’ Yiddish-inflected horror movie
There's has been a boom in the Jewish-themed horror realm in recent years.
On stage and in the classroom, Mikhl Yashinsky is stoking the flame of the Yiddish revival
Yiddish revival hits New York with Folksbiene.
Isaac Bashevis Singer's 'Gimpel the Fool': The Jewish Don Quixote
The story of Gimpel, published after WWII, constitutes the repudiation of Yiddish poet Jacob Glatstein’s understandable response to the Holocaust.
