The Yiddish Podcast
Episode #3: A conversation with Shmuel Atzmon - actor, director, founder of the Yiddishpil Theatre Yiddish, which was not enough in life,...
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YIDDISH CULTURE
- May 31, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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...
- May 10, 2022
- 2 min
Songs from Testimonies
Kaunas is the second city in Lithuania holding the European Capital of Culture title after Vilnius in 2009. Its slogan – ‘From temporary...
- May 9, 2022
- 1 min
The Yiddish Podcast Episode #1 - "Doctor - Yiddish"
The Yiddish Podcast is a soundtrack from the past, recorded in the present, for the future. This series focuses on Yiddish culture: its...
- May 5, 2022
- 2 min
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...
- May 2, 2022
- 12 min
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...
- Apr 26, 2022
- 3 min
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...
- Apr 21, 2022
- 7 min
Jewish motives in Ukrainian poetry
According to historical data, Jewish communities on the area of the present-day Ukraine began to form in the 15th century. However, signs...
- Apr 14, 2022
- 2 min
How did Habima fool its audience
Avishai Lubitch Habima theatre ensemble arrived in a tour in 1926 to Lida. Yehuda Grinhoyz, one of the actors, recounted the following...
- Apr 13, 2022
- 4 min
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...
- Mar 14, 2022
- 1 min
The fourth collection of poems by Moishe Lemster was published in Russian translation
Mordehay Yushkovsky Moses (Moishe) Lemster is one of the most prominent modern writers in Yiddish. He is a bright representative of...
- Mar 7, 2022
- 2 min
Elisheva Kantsedik (1922, Augustów, Poland - 2013, Israel)
Boris Sandler Journalist and prose writer E. Kantsedik was born in the town of Augustów, not far from the city of Bialystok, into the...
- Mar 4, 2022
- 1 min
For Peace
We deeply feel the tragedy that is unfolding before our eyes, we stay with those who are in the war zone, and we pray that all our...
- Feb 28, 2022
- 2 min
Leyzer Volf (12.01.1910, Vilna - ?.04.1943, near Samarkand, now Uzbekistan)
The real name of this poet, playwright and prose writer was Leyzer Mekler. He was born in Vilna into a house painter’s family. He began...
- Feb 21, 2022
- 3 min
David Wolpe (1908, Keidan/Kėdainiai - 2006, Johannesburg)
The poet, essayist, prose writer and journalist David Wolpe could serve as a model for an almost extinct Jewish tribe, the so-called...
- Feb 14, 2022
- 6 min
Hirsh Osherovich (6.25.1908, Panevezys - 6.6.1994, Tel Aviv)
In Yiddish literary circles Hirsh Osherovich was nicknamed “iceberg”, because “only the tiny visible part is known about him." The poet...
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