Grave of Samuel Cohen, composer of Hatikvah is restored
Shmuel Cohen, or Sam Cohen to us less Yiddish aware, is a relatively common Jewish name. There are 708 Sam Cohens in just California and New York alone. There is only one Shmuel Cohen...
YAAANA: Announcing our Intensive Winter Yiddish Language Program and Other new Events
As we near the end of October, we are getting ready for our Yiddish children's education events and classes in November. Give the gift of Yiddish to the younger generation! There are several opportunities to sign...
This Monday: Yiddish Song Workshop and Sing-along!
Yiddish Song Workshops and Sing-alongs
led by Binyumen Schaechter
Via Zoom
Mondays at 7 p.m. ET
Starting this coming Monday, November 2
With Schaechter at the piano, we’ll sing a few selected Yiddish songs – lyrics provided.
We’ll analyze the...
October 29, 1938: Ralph (“Fritz The Cat”) Bakshi was born
Ralph Bakshi, artist, animator, independent filmmaker, and cartoonist, was born in Haifa on this date in 1938. Bakshi is best-known for his 1972 film version of R. Crumb’s “Fritz the Cat,” which was the...
Verter fun der Vokh: די װאַלן – Elections
Elections
די װאַלן
absentee ballot: דער פֿאַרפֿע֜ל־צעטל, ־ען
ballot: דער שטי֜מצעטל, ־ען; די שטים, ־ען
board of elections: דער שטי֜מאַמט
For the complete list, click here to go to the archive at "Verter fun der Vokh"
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...
October 20, 1946: Elfride Jelnek, Nobel Prize in Literature 2004, was born
Born: 20 October 1946, Mürzzuschlag, Austria
Residence at the time of the award: Austria
Prize motivation: "for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal...
“Vu di velt hot nor an ek” (Through an Endless Stretch of Land), by...
"Vu di velt hot nor an ek" (Through an Endless Stretch of Land), by Kadya Molodowsky. Children's poems in Yiddish and English.
Yaira Singer has collected, translated, and illustrated her favorite children's poems by legendary...
SaveTheMusic presents: “Hob ikh mir a mantl” (I had an Overcoat)
The picturebook Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback uses a creative approach to capture the reader’s attention. By observing the book the reader can anticipate that Joseph has an old overcoat. This...
October 15th, 1842: Karl Marx became the editor of Rheinische Zeitung (“Rhenish Newspaper”)
Karl Marx became the editor of Rheinische Zeitung (“Rhenish Newspaper”), an anti-authoritarian newspaper, on this date in 1842. Earlier in the year, Marx had published a six-part series in the newspaper about freedom of...