Music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, book by Joseph Stein, based on stories by Sholem Aleichem, Yiddish translation by Shraga Friedman, directed by Joel Grey. Until June 7 at the Elgin ...
Hampshire College, the nontraditional liberal-arts school that pioneered college-level Holocaust classes and played a central role in launching the acclaimed Yiddish Book Center, announced Tuesday ...
From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Isy Abraham-Raveson, 33, began learning Yiddish by reading books on insults. “There’s ...
The concert version of the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene’s celebrated production of “Fiddler on the Roof” in Yiddish had its West Coast premiere at the Soraya last weekend, and anyone who was ...
(NPR and RNS) — A recently released album, ‘Lider Mit Palestine,’ features several artists and 17 original compositions — some modern, some mournful and all shaped by Yiddish and its history. (NPR and ...
Yiddish is a familiar presence in contemporary English speech. Many people use or at least know the meaning of words like chutzpah (audacity), schlep (drag) or nosh (snack). These words have been ...
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 ...
Yiddish, the historic language of Jews in Europe and Russia, was once nearly extinguished. But now Jews drawn to the language for different reasons are keeping Yiddish alive. Before World War II, some ...
“Sons and Daughters” is quite probably the last great Yiddish novel. Chaim Grade, who was born in what is now Lithuania, in 1910, and spent the second half of his life in the Bronx, wrote it from the ...
When Jewish prisoners were interned during the Holocaust, the Yiddish language went through a metamorphosis — changing and expanding to include new words about their brutal everyday existence. What ...
Evolution is a process that can take many millennia, if not longer. For a scholarly organization like the Yiddish archive and cultural institution YIVO, the process only took a century. YIVO (the ...
Some years ago, at the annual P.S. 3 book fair, I came across a Yiddish-English dictionary. This was a more serious Yiddish-English dictionary than the somewhat antic one I owned called “Dictionary ...
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