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Seder for a Better World An Activist’s Hagodeh

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The Passover seder is an activist’s dream of cultural ritual—a debate with dinner and drinking: an evening for celebrating liberation through cross-generational questioning, story-telling, challenging, and eating— bitter, sweet, salty—accompanied…

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YAAANA´s April Zoom Events and Classes

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A Yiddishized Passover Seyder (translation provided). Meet our Board members, teachers, and volunteers! Enjoy a heymisher 40-min Seyder and learn Yiddish Peysakh vocabulary! When: Thursday, April 9th, 11 a.m, PDT (2 p.m. EDT, 8 p.m. in…

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Programme des séminaires : Yo mit alemen !

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Programme des séminaires autour de thèmes littéraires organisé par la Maison de la culture yiddish du 11 avril au 3 mai 2020 אַ ריי אינטערנעץ־ סעמינאַרן פֿונעם פּאַריזער ייִדיש־צענטער Avec…

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YIVO goes live on Facebook! Here’s this week’s schedule

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Monday, March 30, 1:00pm (EST): Ben Kaplan (Director of Education) and Stefanie Halpern (Director of the YIVO Archives) discuss our online class, Oh Mama, I’m in Love! The Story of the Yiddish Stage Tuesday,…

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Broadway is dark, but NYTF will bring the stage to you

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Folksbiene! LIVE – an online celebration of Yiddish culture featuring livestreamed theater, American Jewish performers, workshops, and other events – including a talkback with the cast of the award-winning Fiddler…

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The Satmar Rebbe tests positive for the coronavirus

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(דער ארטיקל איז איבערגעזעצט געווארן דורך מרת ש. ב. וואלטער) רבי אהרן טייטלבוים, איינער פון די גרויסע אנפירער פונם גרויסן מוסד סאטמר, איז דיאגנאזירט געווארן מיט די קאראנע וויראס נאכן…

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Yiddish Social Distancing

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So how have you been spending YOUR time? A number of friends in the New York Yiddish world have complained that  being locked up has given us all such a…

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Chana Roth – “Shtil Di Nakht’ (Partisan’s song in Yiddish)

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This is a Partisan’s song – a partizaner lid – composed by H.Glik and performed in circa mid-60’s by Israeli singer Hannah/Chana Roth. SHTIL DI NAKHT in yiddish means “The…

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A Yiddish song of hope during the coronavirus

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  הרבֿ יואל ראָטה איז באַקאַנט דעם חסידישן עולם קודם ווי אַ בראַצלאַווער רבֿ, וואָס פֿירט אָן מיט דער וויליאַמסבורגער ישיבֿה „תּפֿארת התּורה‟. ראָטהס ישיבֿה איז באַרימט ווי אַן אָרט,…

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Gevalt in Our Stars

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A Brief History of Yiddish Astrologic Practices In a striking Rosh Hashanah greeting card from the early 1900s, an angelic figure festooned with flowers directs a group of children to…

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