Yiddish

Eight incredible things to do during Hanukkah in NYC this year

Looking to stay entertained during this busy, chilly time of year? Here at the New York Jewish Week, we’ve got you covered.

By LISA KEYS/JTA
25/12/2024

Grapevine December 1, 2024: Yiddish in Japan?

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

How the NY Public Library acquired a ‘treasure trove’ of Jewish and Yiddish music

Netsky said he thinks the Yiddish theater music in the archive files is particularly valuable because it was maligned by the classical composers as shund (trash) and neglected.

By JON KALISH/JTA
12/11/2024

Fania Brantsovsky, last living Vilna ghetto partisan resistance fighter, dies at 102

Fania Brantsovsky, the last survivor of the Vilna ghetto and a Yiddish culture advocate, died at 102, mourning a rich Jewish past.

By DAVID I. KLEIN/JTA
24/09/2024

Meet the Jewish mom whose first sentence on Netflix was in Yiddish

Fifty-four-year-old Levy didn’t hold back her Yiddish, entering her introductory confessional with an “Oy, gott! Oy gevolt” as she comically struggled to climb on the stool.

Jewish Life Stories: A pioneering Jewish papercut artist, a circus clown on a humanitarian mission

Remembering the Jewish pioneers from Israel and the world who made differences in their communities.

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL/JTA
21/08/2024

A not so dead language: Olga Miekeszczuk performs Yiddish concert in Jerusalem

Mieleszczuk’s performance added to the idea that Yiddish is still a living and breathing language.

Worlds of Jewish music and thought

A Polish-born singer brings a taste of the shtetl to Jerusalem.

28/06/2024
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