Event Announcements and Recaps

Folksbiene! LIVE Tonite

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Experience Yiddish sketch comedy Monday, April 6 @7:00PM “Kvarentin Shmarentin” or “Humor on Kovid” Featuring Leyzer Burko, Motl Didner and Elize-Rokhl Dorter, with musical interludes by Zalmem Mlotek. Presented with…

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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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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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All YIVO online classes are now free of charge

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אַלע ייִוואָ־קורסן אויף דער אינטערנעץ זענען איצט בחינם מחמת אַלע זענען פֿאַרשפּאַרט צוליבן קאָראָנאַווירוס, האָט דער ייִוואָ באַשלאָסן צו אַנולירן דעם שׂכר־לימוד פֿאַר אַלע זײַנע אינטערנעץ־קורסן. ”דער ייִוואָ וויל אונדז…

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Intensive Programm in Yiddish Language and Literature, Brussels July 20-July 31, 2020

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Yiddish on the Continent Brussels July 20th – July 31st 2020 The Institute of Jewish Studies (Free University of Brussels – Belgium) L’Institut d’Etudes du Judaïsme, a major European Centre…

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Spend your Valentine’s Day with YAAANA

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Dear Yiddish Enthusiast, This post is a reminder of our special Valentine’s Day celebration which is happening tomorrow night! We will welcome Shabbat and then talk about love traditions and…

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“Coming to America” Reading Groups for Public Libraries—Yiddish Literature in Translation

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Join us as we kick off a special five-part book discussion series focusing on the immigrant experience through the lens of Yiddish literature. The Yiddish Book Center’s “Coming to America”…

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Honoring Sheva Zucker, Miriam Trinh and Noah Barrera : RESERVE NOW

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Come celebrate the transition. After 15 years, our devoted executive director/editor in chief of Afn Shvel Sheva Zucker is retiring. Taking over the executive director and editor-in-chief positions at the…

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Yiddish radio show commemorates 75th anniversary of Auschwitz’s liberation

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די וואָך איז געוואָרן 75 יאָר זינט די סאָוועטן האָבן באַפֿרײַט אוישוויץ. כּדי צו באַערן די קרבנות פֿונעם חורבן און די וואָס האָבן איבערגעלעבט דעם נאַצישן גיהנום, האָבן אַ צאָל…

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