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

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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,…

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

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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…

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

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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.…

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Panoramic view of the interior of the New York Public Library reading room. Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

After 40 years in a basement, the New York Public Library recovers a treasure trove of Jewish and Yiddish music

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NYPL has acquired a unique collection of sheet music and documents that form part of the history of Jewish and Yiddish music broadcast on radio station WEVD. The collection of…

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“Vu di velt hot nor an ek” (Through an Endless Stretch of Land), by Kadya Molodowsky. Children’s poems in Yiddish and English

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“Vu di velt hot nor an ek” (Through an Endless Stretch of Land), by Kadya Molodowsky. Children’s poems in Yiddish and English. Yaira Singer has collected, translated, and illustrated her…

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Soviet Yiddish artists and writers remembered

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Congress for Jewish Culture together with the California Institute for Yiddish Culture and Language, the Jewish Labor Committee and the Workers Circle, we present this video of yesterday’s solemn gathering…

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National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene’s Production of Amid Falling Walls (Tsvishn Falndike Vent) receives Drama Desk Award

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We are excited and proud to share with you, our friends and patrons, that National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene has won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical Revue for our production of Amid…

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Amid Falling Walls (Tsvishn Falndike Vent): Nominated for Drama Desk Award!

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We are excited and proud to share the news that our production of Amid Falling Walls (Tsvishn Falndike Vent) was nominated for a Drama Desk Award as Outstanding Musical Revue. Tsvishn Falndike…

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Verter fun der Vokh – Tu BiShvat

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Tu BiShvat: דער חמישה־עשׂר(־בשבֿט); דער ט״ו בשבֿט [DER KhAMIShÓSER(-BIShVÁT); DER TUBIShVÁT] New year of the trees: דאָס נײַ֜יאָר פֿון די ביי֜מער; דער ראש־השנה־לאילנות‎ [DOS NÁYYOR FUN DI BÉYMER; DER ROShEShÓNE-LEYLÓNES]…

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Verter fun der Vokh: דער פּו֜רים – Happy Purim!

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Purim nonsense rhyme:

אַ גוטן פּו֜רים, אַ֜לע׳ך‮ <מלאך>‮!
וווּ איך גיי פֿ‮אַל איך‮,
די באָרד איז מי‮ר לאַנג,‮
דאָס ווײַב איז מיר‮ קראַנק‮,
הײַנט איז פּו֜רים, מאָרגן‮ איז אויס‮ –‮
גיט מיר אַ פּע֜ני <‮גראָשן> און וואַרפֿט מיך‮ אַרויס‮!

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