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YIDDISH CULTURE
- May 27, 2021
- 5 min
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...
- Apr 22, 2021
- 1 min
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...
- Apr 22, 2021
- 4 min
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...
- Apr 15, 2021
- 2 min
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...
- Apr 8, 2021
- 4 min
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...
- Apr 5, 2021
- 3 min
Hinde-Esther Kreitman - she would have turned 130.
March 31 marks the 130th anniversary of the Jewish writer and translator Hinde-Esther Kreitman - the older sister of the Nobel laureate...
- Mar 31, 2021
- 2 min
Birthday of the Yiddish theater actress Ester-Rochl Kamiṅska
The prominent Yiddish theater actress and activist Ester-Rochl Kamiṅska (née Halperin) was born on March 10, 1868 in the shtetl of Porozovo,
- Mar 31, 2021
- 2 min
Mordkhe Gebirtig (Mordechay Bertig)
Mordkhe Gebirtig (Mordechay Bertig), a Yiddish poet and songwriter, was born in Kraków on May 4, 1877.
- Mar 31, 2021
- 3 min
Kadia Molodowsky - portraying women's voices in Yiddish literature
Kadia Molodowsky was a prolific and popular Yiddish poet, prose writer, editor, and teacher of Yiddish and Hebrew. Among other things, she w
- Mar 31, 2021
- 2 min
Eliezer Steinbarg
Eliezer Steinbarg, the greatest ever Yiddish fabulist, a prominent pedagog and Jewish school education organizer in Bessarabia, Romania and
- Mar 31, 2021
- 2 min
Chaim Grade
Chaim Grade was one of the leading Yiddish writers of the 20th century. He was born on April 4, 1910
- Mar 31, 2021
- 2 min
Dora Teitelboim
A Yiddish poet Dora Teitelboim (Dore Taytlboym) was born on December 14, 1914 in Brisk (Brest Litowsk), now Brest, Belarus.
- Mar 24, 2021
- 4 min
What to read? Recommendation of the week
Zalman Vendrov (real name David Vendrovsky) was one of the oldest Jewish writers in Yiddish in the USSR. He was born in 1877 in the...
- Mar 24, 2021
- 2 min
Marina (Masha) Gordon
The famous pop singer of Yiddish songs Marina (Masha) Gordon was born on December 11, 1917 in Minsk, Belarus. Marina possessed a...
- Mar 23, 2021
- 5 min
Moishe Kulbak
March 20, 2021 marks the 125th anniversary of the Jewish poet, prose writer and playwriter Moishe Kulbak. He was called the prodigy of...
- Mar 19, 2021
- 3 min
Sholem Aleichem
March 2nd marks the birthday of Sholem Aleichem. He is one of the three classics of Yiddish literature, alongside Mendele Moikher-Sforim...
- Mar 5, 2021
- 1 min
The purim-shpil
is a skit or monologue that is performed, usually in the vernacular, in a domestic setting at the festive Purim family meal. It has...
- Feb 23, 2021
- 1 min
Cantor Abraham Brun - Songs of the Ghetto
Music plays an important part in Holocaust memory and commemoration. The album, featuring Cantor Abraham Brun, was released in 1965 by...
- Feb 23, 2021
- 2 min
What to read. Our recommendation.
The Yiddish novel "Der bal-teshuve" ("The Penitent," in English) by Yitzhak Bashevis-Singer was written in 1974. It is a monologue by a...
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