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In a new video produced by the Forverts, Berlin-based Yiddish singer and songwriter Daniel Kahn performs his own recent Yiddish translation of Bob Dylan’s 1967 song, “I Shall Be Released”.…
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May Day דער ערשטער מײַ anarchism: דער אַנאַרכי֜זם bourgeoisie: די בורזשואַ֜זיע capitalism: דער קאַפּיטאַלי֜זם For the complete list, click here to go to the archive at “Verter fun der Vokh”
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“Novelty” musician Mickey Katz, who specialized in Jewish parodies of American classics (such as “Haym afn Range” and “She’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Katzkills”), died at 75 in Los Angeles on this…
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Featuring new and old songs of hope and despair in Yiddish and English. The Detroit-born and Berlin-based Kahn has toured the world as a singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, translator, and teacher. He…
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This song by Herman Yablokoff tells the story of an orphan cigarette vendor who stands in a corner selling “Papirosn” on a cold afternoon in the rain. PAPIROSN פאפיעראסן A…
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לאַנג איידער ס׳רובֿ מענטשן האָבן אָנגעהויבן רעדן וועגן בלוטפּלאַזמע, האָט ד׳׳ר שמואל שוהם זיך שוין געכאַפּט, אַז דאָס בלוט פֿון די, וואָס האָבן זיך אויסגעהיילט פֿונעם קאָראָנאַ־ווירוס, וואָלט געקענט העלפֿן…
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On April 23, 1900, Joseph Green was born in Poland, who emigrated to the United States in 1924 and became a renowned actor in the Yiddish theater. In 1915, during…
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My shvester Jaye, by Binem Heller read by Hadassa Kestin. A mixture with its reading and its translation for your benefit, since not everyone has a poem written for a…
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In Varshever Ghetto is haynt joidesh nisn, escrito por Binem Heller, declamado por Hadassa Kestin. Listen: Programs on Yiddish literature and culture recorded at Montreal’s Jewish Public Library, 1953-2005, click…
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Zog Nit Keynmol Az du Gueist Dem Letztn Veg… Never say that you are walking on your last road… With these words starts the song written by Hirsh Glick in the Vilna…
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