“I’ve come to love Yiddish culture,” said a Lithuanian student, one of 40 who graduated from YIVO’s in-person summer program last week. When Tara Neuwirth arrived in New York City in June for six ...
Call me a softie, but I love a traditional Christmas Eve. If you don’t find me eating Chinese food and watching a movie, I might be catching Gotham Comedy Club’s “A Very Jewish Christmas!” show or ...
Chinese professor and Yiddish scholar Meng Yang is visiting Stanford where she’ll discuss antisemitism in China.
The Jewish Theological Seminary dips into its archives to show the political and cultural ferment of Jewish immigrants. And then there is the granddaddy (or should we say zayde) of them all, the ...
A friend of mine, Henry Srebrnik, a Professor of Political Science at the University of Prince Edward Island, recently had a friend of his, Harry Koza, comment on one of his forwards that the Canadian ...
As a member of the Riverdale-Yonkers Jewish community, I’ve heard for years about the Yom Hashoah Seder conducted by the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, also known as The Bayit. This year, as I debated ...
No, you’re not seeing double. Clad in matching outfits, Yiddish singing duo The Shvesters (Yiddish for “The Sisters”) regularly perform to an audience of thousands on social media, currently sitting ...
With the present dangers confronting the Jewish people, we are desperately in need of more stories about Jewish heroism. For that reason, it is especially well-timed that the Yiddish Book Center has ...
Steven Spielberg had already donated money to the Yiddish Book Center when he asked if the center’s founder, Aaron Lansky, might fly out to Los Angeles and drop by his office. The filmmaker doesn’t ...
The founding of a research institute 100 years ago has helped to provide insight on Yiddish culture in the United States and around the world In 1947 New Jersey, leaders of the New York-based YIVO ...
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This 12-year-old is enchanting people with her Yiddish singing. Her klezmer musician dad explains why.
In the summer of 2020, when the world was in lockdown, I couldn’t stop watching a video that featured two young children — ...
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