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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.
Movers and shakers in Israeli society.
Fania Brantsovsky, the last survivor of the Vilna ghetto and a Yiddish culture advocate, died at 102, mourning a rich Jewish past.
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.
Remembering the Jewish pioneers from Israel and the world who made differences in their communities.
Movers and shakers in Israeli society.
Mieleszczuk’s performance added to the idea that Yiddish is still a living and breathing language.
A Polish-born singer brings a taste of the shtetl to Jerusalem.
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