YIDDISH CULTURE

Jan 31, 2022
3 min

Meyer Yelin (12.?. 1910 - 1.3.2000, Israel)

The prose writer Meyer Yelin (in Lithuanian: Meiras Jelinas) was born into a teacher's family in the Lithuanian town of Srednik (in...

Jan 27, 2022
5 min

Shmerke (Shmaryahu) Kacherginsky (10.28.1908, Vilna / Vilnius - 4.23.1953, Argentina)

For International Holocaust Remembrance Day Soon after the liberation of his hometown, the future poet, publicist, partisan and active...

Jan 24, 2022
2 min

Ber Halpern (1902, Darsūniškis, Lithuania - 1984, Vilnius)

The prose writer Ber Halpern was born into a teacher's family and spent his childhood in a small shtetl Darsūniškis (in Yiddish named...

Jan 18, 2022
1 min

Thank You Letter

We are happy to share with our friends and Yiddish lovers the letter of thanks we received from the head of the "Nativ" service at the...

Jan 17, 2022
3 min

Aaron Garon (1919, Vilna - 2009, Israel)

Journalist, essayist and translator Aaron Garon was born into a secular Jewish family in Vilna. His father, Avrom Itskhok Garon, was a...

Jan 10, 2022
15 min

Avraham Karpinovich

(1913, Vilna / Vilnius - 2004, Tel Aviv) Avraham Karpinovich was born into the family of Moishe Karpinovich (1892-1941), a prominent...

Nov 17, 2021
1 min

The International Day of Tolerance

To mark the International Day of Tolerance on November 16, the National Library of Lithuania and the WJC’s International Yiddish Center...

Oct 6, 2021
4 min

120th anniversary of the first collection of Jewish folk songs.

In 1901, the collection "Jewish Folk Songs in Russia" was published in St. Petersburg. This edition was a pioneering undertaking in many...

Sep 3, 2021
1 min

Rosh ha Shana

מיר באַגריסן אַלע אונדזערע פרייַנד און ליבהאָבער פון ייִדיש צום נייַעם יאָר! מיר ווינטשן אייַך אַ זיס יאָר פון געזונט, גליק, הצלחה און...

Aug 31, 2021
10 min

Jonathan is silent!

Jonathan Hirschfeld Several years ago, the goddess of fortune blessed me with the opportunity to be present in an excited audience when...

Aug 12, 2021
6 min

Seeds that didn't wait to be sown

On the 20th anniversary of the death of Emil Gorovets and the 69th anniversary of the execution of the JAC members. AUGUST 17, 2021 marks...

Aug 9, 2021
2 min

Maurice Vinchevsky

This year marks 165 years since the birth of the Jewish poet, prose writer, playwright and journalist Maurice Vinchevsky, one of the...

Jul 23, 2021
9 min

Who are you, The Black Doba?

By Mordechai Yushkovsky Dealing with a work of fiction, literary scholars are curious to look for an answer to the question: where truth...

Jul 1, 2021
2 min

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...

Jun 29, 2021
1 min

Would you like to create your own film? JAFFE!

The unique Jewish international education project is looking for new participants. Participation is free! All those, who have always...

Jun 25, 2021
4 min

LIMMUD FSU AND WJC INTERNATIONAL YIDDISH CENTER SPECIAL EVENT: “YIDDISH – WE ALL NEED IT”

Officially entitled “Yiddish – why do we need it,” the session featured a series of speakers between whom there was no disagreement at...

Jun 14, 2021
3 min

Shmuel Halkin (November 23 / December 5, 1897 – September 21, 1960)

Boris Sandler Poet, playwright and translator Shmuel Halkin was born in the town of Rogachev, Mogilev province (Belarus). His elder...

Jun 14, 2021
5 min

Yechiel Shraybman (March 12, 1913 - December 2, 2005

Boris Sandler The prose writer Yechiel Shraybman was born in Moldova, in the shtetl of Vad-Rashkov, who entered his stories as Rashkev....

Jun 14, 2021
2 min

Motl (Matvey) Grubian (June 12, 1909 – February 8, 1972)

12. 06. 1909—08. 02. 1972, Moscow #нашенаследие #писатели Boris Sandler The poet Motl Grubian was born in the shtetl of Sokolivka,...

Jun 14, 2021
3 min

Shira Gorshman (née Kushnir; May 10, 1906 – May 4, 2001

Boris Sandler The prose writer Shira Gorshman was born in the shtetl of Krakės, Kovno province (Lithuania) into a poor family. Having...