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


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.

 Why is Deborah named?

The timeless debate

The book shows that the religion v. secularism debate transcends different eras

 RABBI ARYEH SPERO of the National Conference of Jewish Affairs debates Medea Benjamin of Code Pink in Washington, in 2019.

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.

Shtetl in Poland 370

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.

A general view of the UNESCO headquarters in Paris

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.

 Set in a Hasidic enclave in Brooklyn, "The Offering" is the newest film in the long history of Jewish horror films.

On stage and in the classroom, Mikhl Yashinsky is stoking the flame of the Yiddish revival

Yiddish revival hits New York with Folksbiene.

‘FIDDLER ON THE ROOF’ at the 70th annual Tony Awards in 2016. After the runaway success of NYTF’s unorthodox revival of ‘Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish,’ this anomaly may have inspired a whirlwind of interest in Yiddish classes, theater and culture that is having its moment during, of all things, a

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.

 Isaac Bashevis Singer in 1969. He died in 1991 at the age of 87. (Dan Hadani collection, National Library of Israel)

Grapevine December 16, 2022: Meaningful philanthropy

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 TEL AVIV University president Ariel Porat (left) with Sir Frank Lowy.

‘Far beispiel’: Yiddish as a first language

My father had told me to go on, to live life, and he did it in Yiddish, a Yiddish born in the lost towns of Eastern Europe and whose speakers learned to confront adversity with humor and insight.

 The writer and her sister with their parents.

What is the status of Jewish languages in Canada?

It seems still worthwhile to use Canada census data to find out how these languages are doing in regard to being used and studied vs. just being abandoned and therefore shrinking from view.

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