Photos from the World’s Most Isolated Jewish Communities
In their beautiful new book, Scattered Among the Nations: Photographs and Stories of the World’s Most Isolated Jewish Communities, Bryan Schwartz, Jay Sand, and Sandy Carter explore what it feels like to practice Judaism...
Wiesel: De Auschwitz a Disneylandia
Wiesel: De Auschwitz a Disneylandia, una viuda expresada en Yiddish:
El alma de Wiesel, como la de muchos intelectuales judíos, se expresa y entiende mejor en Yiddish, la lengua que, por algún motivo permite niveles...
The 10 Best Jewish Jokes in ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’
Amy Sherman-Palladino, the creator of Gilmore Girls, has gifted us with the Jewish feminist show we need right now. The protagonist is Miriam (Midge) Maisel, a 26-year-old Jewish housewife living on the Upper West Side...
October 22, 1913: The great war photographer Robert Capa is born
Robert Capa, original name (Hungarian form) Friedmann Endre Ernő, (born 1913, Budapest, Hungary—died May 25, 1954, Thai Binh, Vietnam), photographer whose images of war made him one of the greatest photojournalists of the 20th...
Elie Wiesel’s Phrases for Reflection
"Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil."
(Interview with U.S. News and World Report, 1986)
"I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides....
Moti Giladi: ‘My Way’ in Yiddish (2007)
Moti Giladi sings “My Way” in Yiddish (Mayn veg) at the Festival of Jewish Culture in Warsaw: “Singer’s Warsaw” in Warsaw, Poland, in 2007. The festival, which has been taking place since 2004, is named after...
The High Holidays in Ladino: a Rhodesli Custom from Romania to Johannesburg, Seattle, and...
Nótese que en esta ocasión nos referimos a Ladino, porque son textos hebreos -litúrgicos- escritos en letras hebreas pero con ortografía en djudeo-espanyol para que la gente que no sabe hebreo lo pueda leer.
The congregants complained...
Photographer Irving Penn in retrospect at MOPA
SAN DIEGO – If you were a reader of Harper’s Bazaar or Vogue, especially during the 20thcentury, you might have become very familiar with the fashion photography of Irving Penn, who was born to a Jewish father and...
The controversial Sholem Ash’s classic Got Fun Nekome de Sholem Ash back in NY...
New Yiddish Rep (NYR) is bringing back by popular demand the controversial classic “God of Vengeance” for a special encore running for two weeks at Theatre at St. Clement’s, 423 West 46th Street, from...
Rekindling an Old Passion
There is nothing like good art and good humor to raise your spirits! Rafael Mareyna has a knack for combining both with a twinkle in his eye. One can see that humor at Casa...