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Official transliteration guide for Yiddish according to the YIVO, the Official Yiddish Language Academy

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July 30, 2020

Official transliteration guide for Yiddish according to the YIVO, the Official Yiddish Language Academy. Download PDF EXCEPTION: When the word אויף is used as a preposition, it is pronounced and therefore transliterated as af (not oyf),…

Verter fun der Vokh: דער צע֜נזוס – Census

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By: League for Yiddish

July 24, 2020

2020 census: דער צע֜נזוס <די פֿאָ֜לקסצײלונג> פֿון 2020 [DER TSÉNZUS <DI FÓLKSTSEYLUNG> FUN 2020] civic engagement: די געזע֜לשאַפֿטלעכע בי֜נדונג [DI GEZÉLShAFTLEKhE BÍNDUNG] community funding: די פֿינאַנצי֜רונג לטובֿת־הכּלל [DI FINANTSÍRUNG LETÓYVES-HAKLÁL] For the complete…

“A dank dir, mayn lebn” – Chilean classic “Gracias a la vida”, sung in Yiddish by Roman Grinberg

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July 17, 2020

Maybe the most beautiful hymn to life ever written with no need of further introductions or explanations. It is a song telling everything in itself, and going directly inside the…

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

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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…

July 15, 1913: Avrom Sutskever, great Yiddish poet, is born

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July 15, 2020

(1913–2010), Yiddish poet. Born in Smorgon’, a small industrial city southeast of Vilna, Avrom Sutzkever spent his early childhood in Omsk, Siberia, where his parents took refuge from the invading German…

Verter fun der Vokh: דער פֿע֜רצעטער יו֜לי – Bastille Day

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July 15, 2020

דער 14ט‮ער יולי איז געוואָרן אַ נאַציאָנאַלער‮ יום־טובֿ בײַ די פֿראַנצויזן ווײַל אין ‮יענעם טאָג אין ‮9871 האָט מען געשטורעמט‮ די באַסטיל, באַפֿרײַט‮ די מלוכה־געפֿאַנגענע, ‮און דערמיט האָט זיך אָנגעהויבן די פֿראַנצייזישע‮ רעוואָלוציע. ‮ !פֿרײַהייט, גלײַכקייט, ‮ברידערשאַפֿט July…

International contest for Yiddish song and klezmer music

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July 10, 2020

דער בראַזילאַנער פֿעסטיוואַל „קלעזטיוואַל“ — דער גרעסטער פֿעסטיוואַל פֿון ייִדישער מוזיק אין דרום־אַמעריקע — לאַנצירט הײַיאָר אַן אינטערנאַציאָנאַלן קאָנקורס, „די באָבע־פּרעמיעס“, וואָס וועט אָנערקענען דאָס בעסטע נײַע ייִדישע ליד, די בעסטע נײַע…

Large archive of Moscow State Yiddish Theater now online

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July 10, 2020

דער „בלאַוואַטניק־אַרכיוו“ האָט לעצטנס געשטעלט אויף דער אינטערנעץ הונדערטער בילדער פֿון חפֿצים פֿאַרבונדן מיט דער געשיכטע פֿונעם מאָסקווער ייִדישן מלוכה־טעטאַער („גאָסעט“). די אַרטיפֿאַקטן, וואָס נעמען אַרײַן הונדערטער פֿאָטאָגראַפֿיעס, סצענאַרן, בראָשורן, צייכענונגען און…

Vira Lozinsky sings a love song to Paris

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July 7, 2020

Vira Lozinsky, one of today’s outstanding Yiddish singers,blends her singing with a variety of musical styles from East European folk (Klezmer, Gypsy, Romanian, Russian) to South American Tangos. Her repertoire…

Paul Robeson sang in Yiddish

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July 6, 2020

I still remember the rich bass baritone voice of Paul Robeson singing “Old Man River” in the 1936 movie Show Boat. That was his song and I thought no one else could match his…