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Verter fun der Vokh: דער טאָג פֿון דער ערד – Earth Day

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דער‮ יע֜רלעכער טאָג פֿון דער ערד‮ העלפֿט שטאַרקן די ווי֜סיקייט פֿון סבֿיבֿה־ענינים‮, און איז שוין דערמי֜ט‮ געוואָ֜רן אַ פּאָפּולע֜רע‮ צײַט אַז דער בריי֜טער עולם זאָל‮ זיך צונוי֜פֿזאַמלען און אוי֜פֿהייבן דאָס…

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In Search of a Soviet Yiddishland: The Poetics of Absence in Shmuel Gordon ’s Travelogue

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Soviet Yiddish Literature After Stalin In Soviet Yiddish literature, which resumed its legalised existence in the late 1950s and continued into the 1990s, the post-Stalinist period has often been dismissed…

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Itzhak Perlman: Popular Jewish Melodies, A Yiddishe Mame, מנגינות יהודיות (ref.rec.: Dov Seltzer)

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Itzhak Perlman: Popular Jewish Melodies. *Click to activate the English subtitles for the presentation* (00:00​-01:00​) I.THE JEWISH MOTHER – A Yiddishe Mamme – Traditional (00:00​) This song, whose authors are…

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Millennial Bundism: An Interview with Isabel Frey

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INTRODUCTION Isabel Frey is a Vien­na-based activist and musi­cian who recent­ly released a debut album, Mil­len­ni­al Bundist. Faith Hillis recent­ly caught up with Frey on Zoom to ask about mil­len­ni­als’ redis­cov­ery of the…

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Verter fun der Vokh: דער חודש לכּבֿוד דער אַפֿראָאַמעריקאַ֜נער געשי֜כטע – Black History Month

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לאַ֜נג‮ נאָך דער אַבאָלי֜ציע‮ האָבן‮ אַפֿראָאַמעריקאַ֜נער‮ נישט‮ געהאַ֜ט‮ די פֿו֜לע רעכט‮ ווי בי֜רגערס און‮ האָבן‮‮‮ ‮פֿאַ֜קטיש ‮‮ווײַ֜טער‮ געלע֜בט‮ סעגרעגי֜רטע‮ לעבנס און געלי֜טן‮ פֿון‮ דיסקרימינאַ֜ציע און‮ ראַסי֜זם‮. ‮‮נאָכן אײַ֜נפֿירן דאָס געז‮ע֜‮ץ‮‮‮…

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Travels to Yiddishlands: Three Centers of Yiddish Responses to the Holocaust

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In an attempt to classify writing on the Holocaust, the United States Library of Congress first recognized “Holocaust literature” in 1968, even though people wrote of the horrors witnessed during…

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SaveTheMusic invites you to listen and learn more about “Zog Nit Keynmol”: Lyrics, transliterations, performers, and more!

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Zog Nit Keynmol Az du Gueist Dem Letztn Veg… Never say that you are walking on your last road… With these words starts the song written by Hirsh Glick in…

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Wikipedia in Yiddish, an invitation to participate

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Today marks the 20th anniversary of the foundation of Wikipedia, which in this period of time succeeded in use instead of Encyclopedia Britannica as the most consulted source. Furthermore, Wikipedia…

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Daniel Galay’s words on receiving his lifetime achievement award

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ד״ר שׂרה זיו — פֿאָרזיצערין; פֿרוי יהודית סולל — גענעראַל דירעקטאָרין פֿון דער נאַציאָנאַלער אינסטאַנץ פֿאַר ייִדישער קולטור; חשובֿער עולם: ווען כ’בין געווען פֿינף יאָר אַלט, אין בוענאָס־אײַרעס, האָט מיך…

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Der Dibek (The Dybbuk): 100th Anniversary Production

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December 2020 marks 100 years since the curtain first rose on the Vilner Troupe’s ground-breaking production of Sh. Ansky’s Der Dibek (The Dybbuk, or, Between Two Worlds) which theater historian…

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