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Back in the Arena: The Return of Nathan Becker (1932)

//S. Pohomova// An amazing movie that was filmed in two versions, in Russian and in Yiddish at the dawn of the sound era of Soviet...

H. Leyvik's 60th yortzeit

December 23, 2022, marks the 60th anniversary of the passing of one of the most important Jewish poets and playwrights, H. Leyvick. H....

Happy Hanukkah

We wish all our friends and Yiddish lovers a cheerful and bright Hanukkah! May Hanukkah candles bring peace, joy and pleasure to all of...

The Shtisel effect

//Svetlana Pakhomova// The position of Yiddish in Israeli culture has been difficult, to say the least. The trend towards multilingualism...

The Yiddish Podcast

Episode #9: "In onheib iz gevan dos wort" - "In the beginning there was the word." Famous linguistic scholar, Professor-Emeritus of the...

David Edelstadt's 130th Yortzeit

October 17 marks the 130th anniversary of the death of the poet David Edelstadt, who was one of the founders of proletarian revolutionary...

The forgotten language of Odessa

The International Yiddish Center presents a new film about the "most Jewish" city of Ukraine, Odessa. Together with the presenter Yitzhak...