(New York Jewish Week) – Like many great ideas, “The Mamales,” a Yiddish singing group, began on a summer night at a bar on the Lower East Side. The women who make up the trio, Maya Jacobson, Raquel ...
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A moving but problematic concert for Holocaust Remembrance Day
Barletta, a coastal city in Puglia, Italy, is an unexpected place for a massive archive of concentration camp music. Yet one ...
This forgotten musician was once a world-famous singer of both opera and Yiddish folk music. Isa Kremer was a diva who took ...
Yehuda sits with Rukhl Schaechter, editor of the Yiddish Forverts, to explore the renaissance of the Yiddish language—from ...
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Why the Forward has launched a Yiddish podcast
In April 2022, right after the COVID virus sequestered us all in our homes, the Forward staff huddled about what we could do ...
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Restored Yiddish film 'I Have Sinned' captures pre-war Polish Jewry
There’s an old British expression, “a curate’s egg.” The story goes that a couple once hosted their vicar for dinner and ...
Penn professor Kathryn Hellerstein discusses Yiddish poetry translation at Kelly Writers House event
Penn Yiddish professor Kathryn Hellerstein discussed the role of translation in Yiddish women’s poetry and its influence on literary history at an event hosted by Kelly Writers House on Feb. 19.
Though the Swiss born actor-singer-dancer often performs in Yiddish, her latest song is about chasing her dreams in the Big Apple. (New York Jewish Week) — One-of-a-kind Jewish musician Lea Kalisch, a ...
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Strong start for Virginia’s first Yiddish culture festival
It’s not every day that you encounter a man in a Stetson hat singing Yiddish folksongs in the former capital of the Confederacy. Yet that wasn’t the most unexpected thing this reporter experienced ...
The Yiddish Book Center is something of a misnomer. The Amherst, Massachusetts, institution runs language classes, trains translators, produces podcasts, hosts the summer music festival Yidstock, and ...
Under Joel Grey's direction and performed in Yiddish, "Fiddler on the Roof" is the first big hit for Stage 42, formerly the Little Shubert. Matthew Murphy The biggest little hit in town right now is ...
(RNS) — The grounds of the Berkshire Hills Eisenberg Camp in Copake, New York, were alive in mid-August with a gaggle of nearly 100 campers, young and old. Like at many camps in upstate New York, they ...
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