Mame-Loshn
As we approach the first night of Chanukah, the team at YAAANA would like to take a moment to wish you and your family a joyous holiday – a freylekhn khanike! Here…
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Recently, the young Yiddishist and movie lover Aaron Bendich uploaded to YouTube some disco songs in Yiddish from the Israeli film, “When you give, you take.” Until recently, almost no…
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The latest in our Youtube series “Gehert a Mayse!/Have you heard?” is live! The Upside-Down World of Birobidzhan In the summer of 2007, Sheva Zucker, editor of Afn Shvel from…
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Happy December! This newsletter will be brief but contains a couple of important pieces of information. First, the last day to purchase a discounted registration package for the Not Your…
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A new bilingual edition of Kadya Molodowsky’s enchanting Yiddish children’s poetry was recently published in Sweden. Edited and masterfully translated into English by Yaira Singer, “Through an Endless Stretch of Land” makes…
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This month marks the 100th anniversary of THE DYBBUK, the world’s most famous Jewish play, by S. Ansky. The Congress for Jewish Culture is celebrating this historically significant milestone with…
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A freylekhn danktog! The YAAANA team would like to wish you and your family a very warm, happy, and safe Thanksgiving. In the spirit of giving thanks, we would also…
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YIDDISH SONG AFTER THE HOLOCAUST The impact of the destruction of European Yiddish culture in the Holocaust upon Yiddish song is clear: the cultural roots of this diverse repertory were…
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California Dreamin’ in Yiddish with beatboxing and a flute מיר איז תּמיד אינטערעסאַנט, ווען מענטשן זעצן איבער פּאָפּולערע אַמעריקאַנער לידער אויף ייִדיש, בפֿרט ווען עס גייט אַ רייד וועגן אַ…
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change one’s behavior: בײַטן דעם אוי֜פֿפֿיר; בײַטן די פֿי֜רונג; בײַטן ווי מע פֿירט זיך [BAYTN DEM ÚFFIR; BAYTN DI FÍRUNG; BAYTN VI ME FIRT ZIKh] community spread: דער פֿאַרשפּריי֜ט צווישן…
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