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A Language With Chutzpah: Yiddish And American Culture

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February 7, 2020

When was the last time you ate a bagel? Gave a spiel at work? Called someone a klutz? Tried to have chutzpah? Contacted Apple about an iPhone glitch? These may…

“Harry Potter” series receives official Yiddish translation

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February 7, 2020

Harry Potter Un Der Filosofisher Shteyn This translation would not have been possible if not for the efforts of four committed colleagues: Yankl-Peretz Blum, whose linguistic guidance significantly leveled up…

The origin of East European Ashkenazim via a southern route

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February 4, 2020

Two populations are mentioned in the literature as ancestors of the Eastern European Ashkenazim: German Jews and Khazars. A German origin is not demographically possible, a Khazarian origin can also…

7 comentarios que la gente hace y que me molestan sobremanera

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January 30, 2020

Por Marian Tatos ( Publicado en Forward/Forvertz, en Idish) Traducción: Adina Cimet Paréntesis [] en el texto, son de la traductora para contextualizar el argumento de la autora. Como profesora…

Benjy Fox-Rosen performs Bardichever’s lament, “Doina”

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January 28, 2020

ווען בענדזשי פֿאָקס־ראָזען האָט פֿאַרלאָזט ניו־יאָרק און זיך באַזעצט אין ווין מיט אַ פֿיר־פֿינף יאָר צוריק, האָט די ניו־יאָרקער קלעזמער־סבֿיבֿה פֿאַרלוירן איינער פֿון זײַנע נאָוואַטאָרישסטע זינגער און קאָמפּאָזיטאָרן. צום גליק…

Q&A: A Yiddish-speaking gumshoe with a tapping toe

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January 22, 2020

Gale Kissin, 67, wears several hats. She not only sings and plays guitar and percussion in Mama Loshn, the Yiddish revival band she co-founded, but she’s spent decades working with attorneys as…

ווידעאָ: חורבן־ליד אָנגעשריבן פֿון אַ 12־יעריק קינד

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January 7, 2020

דער אַלבאָם „ייִדישע פּראַכט‟, אַ פּראָיעקט פֿון ד׳׳ר אַנאַ שטערנשיס צוזאַמען מיט אַ גרופּע מוזיקער און די זינגער פּסאָי קאָראָלענקאָ און סאָפֿי מילמאַן, האָט באַקאַנט געמאַכט פֿאַרן ברייטן עולם מיט אַ…

Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” in Yiddish!

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December 27, 2019

On YouTube in honor of today’s December 16th birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven here’s the Yiddish adaptation and the new choral adaptation of his “Ode to Joy” from his Ninth…

Upcoming Concert: Ikh Zing: The Yiddish Tradition

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December 26, 2019

Preservation New Jersey presents IKH ZING: The Yiddish Tradition, a celebration of Yiddish culture from Europe and the Americas through song, performed by The Murad – Zinger Duo featuring Nicole Murad, vocalist and and Pablo…

Perets Markish: Making the Bolshevik Revolution a Jewish One Through Yiddish

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December 20, 2019

And all of a sudden, Markish interrupted in his bass voice that in moments of passion became a heroic tenor: “We shall host a literary event that will makethe whole…