Significant dates

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...

A tribute to mark the completion of Shloyshim of Lazar Lubarsky

Mordehay Yushkovsky April 24, 2022 was exactly one month (shloyshim) since the death of Lazar Lubarsky. Some have even called him...

Marking the 100th anniversary of Yiddish professor Gershon Winer - "Mr. Yiddish"

Mordehay Yushkovsky The Yiddish poet Mendl Lifshitz wrote: And a multitude of papers soulfully The uncomplicated plot is kept inside: If...

The legacy of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav

Watch video about Rabbi Nachman on FaceBook This April marks the 250th anniversary of one of the most important religious authorities in...

The 150th anniversary of David Pinsky

Mordehay Yushkovsky April 5, 2022 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Jewish writer and playwright David Pinsky. Pinsky was...

140 years to Ber Borokhov

July 3rd marks the 140th anniversary of the birth of Ber Borokhov, an outstanding political and public figure, founder and theoretician...

120 years Anniversary to Itsik Manger

On May 30th we mark the 120th anniversary of Itsik Manger. The literary critic Shmuel Niger said about him "Es zainen do poetn, un es iz...

Anatoly Kerzhner

We deeply mourn the untimely death of our long-term colleague and friend Anatoly (Naftola) Kerzhner. He was only 41 years old. Anatoly...

100th anniversary of Hirsch Glick

April 24, 2021 (date not exactly confirmed) marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Hirsch Glick. There are very few people who, with...

Chersonskij Emil (Milan) 1937-2021

A Mensch has passed away, whose merits for the Lithuanian Yiddish culture can hardly be overestimated. Chersonskij was born on 2/9/1937...

115 years anniversary of Shira Gorshman

April 10, 2021 marks the 115th anniversary of the Jewish writer Shire Gorshman. The dramas and fatal twists that filled this woman's life...

February 21 is Mother Language Day, celebrating the world's linguistic diversity.

This is the story of how a country in northern Europe has gone on to become a large producer of contemporary Yiddish content; Yiddish,...