YIDDISH CULTURE

2 hours ago
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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...

8 hours ago
1 min

The Yiddish Podcast

Episode #8: "Is There a Place for Yiddish in Today's Cultural World?" A conversation with Zisl Slepovitch, a musician, teacher, composer...

Sep 23
1 min

Rosh Hashanah!

מיר באַגריסן האַרציק אַלע אונדזערע פרייַנד און ליבהאָבער פון ייִדישן וואָרט מיט ראש השנה! זאָל דאָס נייַע יאָר ברענגען אַלעמען קודם כל...

Sep 22
1 min

אויף גיטקע-טייַבעלעס זאוווּלעק

September 23rd marks the 79th anniversary of the destruction of the Vilna ghetto. Remembering this tragic date, we publish a poem in...

Sep 16
1 min

The Yiddish Podcast

Episode #7: "Chernowitz - a shtot mit yidn" (Chernivtsi is a city full of Jews) The renowned linguistics scholar Professor Wolf Moskovich...

Sep 7
3 min

Moyshe-Leyb Halpern's 90th Yortzeit

August 31, 2022, marks the 90th anniversary of the death of the eminent Jewish poet Moyshe-Leyb Halpern. He passed away at the age of 46....

Aug 31
1 min

YIDDISH de LITA

The third film in the "Yiddish" series focuses on one of the world's leading centers of Yiddish culture in the past, Vilna, the...

Aug 23
7 min

The Yiddish Stage as a Temporary Home

Book in review: The Satirical Theater of Dzigan and Schumacher (1927 - 1980)", Diego Rothman //Svetlana Pohomova// Diego Rothman, the...

Aug 23
1 min

The Yiddish Podcast

Episode #6: "A Yiddisher Rock" In this podcast Alexander Kotlyar talks about how he transitioned from his work in Russian to Yiddish. How...

Aug 4
2 min

For the 70th Anniversary of the Night of Executed Poets

On August 12, 1952, 13 members of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee were executed in Moscow, including the actor Benjamin Zuskin, who...

Jul 27
1 min

The Yiddish Podcast

Episode #5: "Echoes of Yiddish Culture" A conversation with Ruth Levin, singer, researcher, translator, broadcaster, and daughter of the...

Jul 13
1 min

Our Contribution to Limmud FSU Canada

Limmud is an educational conference about Jewish life for people of all ages and interests. It's about how people "Jewishly" connect with...

Jul 12
7 min

Looking for Jewish Happiness

//Svetlana Pakhomova// Many films based on Jewish material were shot in the Soviet Union In the 1920s and 1930s. Some of them did not...

Jul 8
1 min

The Yiddish Podcast

Episode #4 "I'm from Yiddish" Conversation with Moses Lemster - poet, teacher and researcher of the Yiddish language and literature....

Jun 6
1 min

The Yiddish Podcast

Episode #3: A conversation with Shmuel Atzmon - actor, director, founder of the Yiddishpil Theatre Yiddish, which was not enough in life,...

May 31
2 min

"A marriage made in heaven" - Chaim Nachman Bialik about Hebrew and Yiddish languages

//Victoria Alekseeva// Bilingualism, that is, the use of both Hebrew and Yiddish, is a characteristic feature of all Eastern European...

May 24
1 min

The Yiddish Podcast

Episode #2 : Nechama Lifshitz is the voice of the silenced Soviet Jewry. The Yiddish Podcast is a soundtrack from the past, recorded in...

May 23
1 min

Fania Brantsovskaja celebrates 100th birthday!

Fania for a long time has been a Vilnius legend. Her heroic life has inspired many young people to make films and write articles about...

May 20
4 min

My mother / Sarah Barkan Zilberman

From the book "VEGN ZICH UN AYKH” ("About myself and you") p. 30 //Avishai Lubitch// A hard time awaited my mother when we, her...

May 16
4 min

Dybbuk or black holes of memory. “Demon” by Marcin Wrona

//Svetlana Pakhomova// "Dybuk"* is one of the most entrancing subject of the Jewish literature of the 20th century. Semion Akimych An-sky...