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Uncovering the Yiddish-language tales about Knights of the Round Table that Jews (and non-Jews)...
Have you heard of the Yiddish-language King Arthur stories written between the 14th – 18th centuries? These retellings of Arthurian tales for Jewish audiences were tremendously popular for centuries, though they aren’t well known today, as...
FREE today and tomorrow, multilingual concert in Yiddish and English. Experience “old” and new...
An electrifying virtual concert rebroadcasts on Martin Luther King Jr. Day Weekend to celebrate the music and shared experiences of the African American and Jewish communities.
It is in lyrics and music that we deepen...
Jews and Germans in Eastern Europe
Preface
In the last 25 years historiography has shifted its focus increasingly away from long standing “methodological nationalism” and toward more transnational approaches and perspectives. These take an interest in relational aspects of history, moving...
Ale mentshn zaynen brider: Od to Joy
Yiddish poem: I. L. Peretz (1852-1915)
Original music: Beethoven's 9th Symphony
Choral adaptation: Binyumen Schaechter
Yiddish Philharmonic Chorus
דער ייִדישער פֿילהאַרמאָנישער כאָר
(formerly Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus / JPPC)
Binyumen Schaechter, Conductor
בנימין שעכטער, דיריגענט
Shinae Kim, pianist
Filmed live in performance
November 1,...
Dear Participants in the Yiddish Song Workshop & Sing-along
A freylekhn khanike! Happy Chanukah! We hope you enjoyed yourselves at this past Sunday's Grand Finale of the Chanukah series of the Yiddish Song Workshop & Sing-along (YSWS)!
As many of you know, we're continuing...
Library of Congress Announces Music Commissions from the 2021 Koussevitzky Foundation
The Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress has awarded commissions for new musical works to seven composers. The commissions are granted jointly by the foundation and the performing organizations that will...
Who is knocking at your door?
Surely you have quoted many times Pastor Niemöller's poem, the one that refers to “now they are coming for me, but yet there is nobody who can raise their voice in my defense”.
These words,...
WATCH: Jimmy Buffett in Yiddish (“Come to me”)
WATCH: Jimmy Buffett in Yiddish (“Come to me”)
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דער אַמעריקאַנער פּאָעט און זינגער דזשימי באָפֿעט איז באַקאַנט ווי אַ מחבר פֿון טשיקאַווע לידער, וואָס האָבן אָפֿט צו טאָן מיט משקה און סעקס....
Yiddish Word of the Day: Rain
Yiddish Word of the Day: Rain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdpZqnt7DUs
A Yom Kippur story
The synagogue packed with people praying under their white tallises looks like "a forest of snow-covered trees" and everyone prays the same prayer, but under each tallis there is a different person with different...