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Yiddish Word of the Week – Verter fun der Vokh: Insectos – Insects / אינסעקטן

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December 4, 2025

געוויסע אינסעקטן (אַרײַנגערעכנט פֿליגן, מיסטזשוקעס, טערמיטן און מערעטשקעס) העלפֿן דערצו, אַז אָרגאַנישע מאַטעריע זאָל זיך צעפֿאַלן און צוריקגעבן שפּײַזוואַרג אין דער ערד אַרײַן, וואָס דאָס איז קריטיש צו דער געזונטער…

Sabina’s Letter: “Some of Us Must Survive” featuring Olga Avigail Mieleszczuk

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April 25, 2025

“Some of Us Must Survive” is based on the book: Buried Words: The Diary of Molly Applebaum. After Germany invaded Poland, Molly Applebaum’s mother Salomea arranged for a farmer to…

Chaim Grade’s last Yiddish novel ‘Sons and Daughters’ finally available in English

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By: Yossi Newfield

April 14, 2025

When millions of Yiddish-speaking Eastern European Jews perished in the Holocaust, their stories, culture and way of life were wiped out with them. One survivor, the novelist Chaim Grade, made…

Di Fir Kashes – The four questions

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April 11, 2025

פֿאַרוואָס איז די נאַכט פֿון פּסח אנדערש פֿון אַלע נעכט פֿון אַ גאַנץ יאָר? Farvos iz di nakht fun peysekh andersh fun ale nekht fun a gants yor? אַלע נעכט…

100 years after its founding, can a Yiddish institute serve a people who don’t speak the language?

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March 24, 2025

The YIVO institute, an archive, library and research institution on Eastern European Jewish civilization, recently encountered a novel problem in its 100 year history. In its early days in Europe,…

André Heller – Tsen Brider

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March 17, 2025

Tsen Brider (Les Dix Frères), chanson populaire yiddish, composée probablement en Russie à la fin du 19ème siècle. Interprétée par André Heller. Tsen Brider Tsen brider zenen mir gevezn, Hobn…

The Shvesters: Paulina Levi (left) and Polina Fradkin. Photo by Nira Dayanim.

How two Yiddish soul sisters became a singing sensation

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By: Alan Zeitlin

March 7, 2025

When singers Polina Fradkin and Paulina Levi got 50,000 Instagram followers, they celebrated with a cake. But these days, they are really cooking. The Shvesters (the Yiddish word for “The…

Tantz mit mir a lidl bizn sof – Dance to the End

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February 6, 2025

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Yiddish songs in 4-part harmony IHO International Holocaust Remembrance Day

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January 27, 2025

The Yiddish Philharmonic Chorus דער ייִדישער פֿילהאַרמאָנישער כאָר Binyumen Schaechter, Conductor Seth Weinstein, Pianist IN HONOR OF International Holocaust Remembrance Day Three songs in Yiddish performed in four-part harmony with English…

Jules Feiffer, a symbol of New York Yiddish satirical humor, dies

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January 22, 2025

Jules Ralph Feiffer (January 26, 1929 – January 17, 2025) was an American cartoonist and author, who at one time was considered the most widely read satirist in the country.…