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

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By: Jewish Website

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.…

The Legacy of Menachem Mike Fox Z”L

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By: Jewish Website

January 22, 2025

National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene mourns the passing of Menachem Mike Fox. Mike was a dedicated performer and teacher of Yiddish folk song, a poet, and one of the creators of…

Documentary Film Traces Life, Works of Yiddish Poet Avrom Sutzkever

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By: Yiddish Book Center

October 28, 2021

Released in 2021, Ver Vet Blaybn? (Who Will Remain?), a documentary that follows one woman’s journey to understand her grandfather, Yiddish poet Avrom Sutzkever, is resonating with audiences and having success…

Yosef Guri, who collected Yiddish proverbs, has died

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By: Bella Bryks Klein

April 29, 2021

ד״ר יוסף גורי, אַ פּראָפֿעסאָר פֿון רוסיש וואָס איז ווי אַ קינד על־פּי־נס ניצול געוואָרן פֿונעם חורבן און האָט געשטרעבט צו פֿאַראייביקן דאָס לשון פֿון זײַנע אומגעבראַכטע עלטערן, איז די…

March 4, 1910: Yiddish playwright Moshe Horowitz died

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By: Museum of Family History

March 4, 2021

Moshe Ish HaLevy was born on 27 February in Stanislawow, Eastern Galicia to an orthodox family who were followers of the Gaon Hshl”kh. He studied with Rabbi Meshulam Horowitz and later…

STM, what we think, what we want, by Theodore Bikel

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By: SaveTheMusic

February 26, 2021

STM, what we think, what we want as expressed by Theodore Bikel in an interview with Miri Koral, founding director of The California Institute for Yiddish Culture & Language (CIYCL).…

A Celebration of the Life and Work of Sholem Asch

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By: Jewish Website

February 25, 2021

An international celebration of Yiddish writer Sholem Asch’s life and work, including theater, films, music, photographs, sketches, satire, art, and family stories. Now in its 3rd year, Asch Wednesday 2021…

January 15, 1987: Note Lurie, Yiddish novelist, died

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By: Borekh Tshubinski

January 15, 2021

He was born in the old Jewish colony of Roskoshnaia, Zaporozhye (Zaporizhia) district, Ukraine. During a pogrom in 1919, the majority of the residents in the colony were massacred, and…

Boris Sandler, Treplekh aroyf tsu a nes: a sibe far a mesibe

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By: Congress for Jewish Culture

July 15, 2020

On Sunday 12 July 2020, the Congress for Jewish Culture together with the California Institute for Yiddish Culture and Language, and Yung Yidish of Tel Aviv honored the Yiddish writer…

The ventriloquist who teaches Yiddish

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By: Jonathan Geffner

June 8, 2020

Jonathan Geffner and his puppet partners have enchanted audiences of all ages and sizes throughout the USA and beyond. They have appeared on the nationally seen television programs: Late Night…