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

This singing trio wants to make Yiddish sexy again

To launch the project, the women started a GoFundMe page, with a goal to record and release a cover and music video of their rendition of “Abi Gezunt.”

APRIL 16, 2022ByJULIA GERGELY/JTA
(L-R) Raquel Nobile, Jodi Snyder, and Maya Jacobson together form the trio "The Mamales" with a goal to eventually release a concept album of Yiddish song covers.

6 Jewish words no journalist can live without -opinion

Journalism has its own specialized vocabulary, with talk of “ledes” and “nut grafs,” “sigs” and “kickers.” But there are also Jewish words for which there are no satisfactory substitutes.

MARCH 28, 2022ByANDREW SILOW-CARROLL / JTA
Hebrew Typewriter

This Yiddish book center in Queens lives on, just like the language it celebrates

“Little Yiddish organizations have come and gone by the hundreds, if not more,”Hy Wolfe said. “The only ones that still exist today are the ones where they have stubborn old Jews like me."

MARCH 24, 2022ByJULIA GERGELY/JTA
Bookshelf

The Ukrainian Jew who saved Yiddish music from oblivion

“Song Searcher” isa new documentary about Moyshe Beregovsky, Jewish folklorist who traveled his native Ukraine in the 1930s and ’40s collecting Yiddish folk music and klezmer songs.

MARCH 20, 2022ByANDREW SILOW-CARROLL / JTA
Local residents walk near residential buildings which were damaged during Ukraine-Russia conflict in the besieged southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine March 18, 2022.

Grapevine February 13, 2022: No surprise

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

FEBRUARY 12, 2022ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
FROM LEFT: Daniel Friedmann, Avi Dichter, Yaakov Edri and Yitzhak Aharonovitch in a weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem in 2007.

How it really was: Preparing for life in Israel

The year was 1948, the place was a 160-acre (624 dunam) farm on the outskirts of Guelph, Ontario.

JANUARY 26, 2022ByAVRAHAM AVI-HAI
Members of the original Kibbutz Kfar Darom, then located in the Gaza Strip, ride mules to work in the fields in 1947

Does Wordle have you ‘farblundget’? Try these Hebrew and Yiddish versions

Popular word game 'Wordle' has become immensely popular, with over 2 million players posting their results online. Now developers have contributed Yiddish and Hebrew versions.

JANUARY 26, 2022ByMICHELLE KRASOVITSKI/JTA
“Vertle,” a Yiddish Wordle, had the potential of being as confounding as the Hebrew version.

This New York City cantor is making modern Yiddish music that swings

In order to bring Yiddish musical theater into the world of jazz, Yisroel Leshes had to reinvent the genre.

JANUARY 21, 2022ByJULIA GERGELY/JTA
Cantor Yisroel Leshes filmed his first music video for his song "Younger World" while on vacation in Venice, teaming up with local Venetian directors and cinematographers.

YIVO’s vast archives of Yiddish life are reunited online

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research founded in Vilna before World War II and collected millions of Yiddish texts.

JANUARY 7, 2022ByANDREW SILOW-CARROLL / JTA
YIVO unveils lost Jewish documents thought to have been destroyed during the Holocaust

Yiddish copies of Christian Bible distributed in Rockland County, NY

Rockland County has a very dense ultra-Orthodox Jewish population, especially in places like Monsey and Spring Valley. The Yiddish copies of the New Testament are linked to missionary organizations.

JANUARY 4, 2022ByAARON REICH
Christianity, illustrative