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Perets Markish: Making the Bolshevik Revolution a Jewish One Through Yiddish

And all of a sudden, Markish interrupted in his bass voice that in moments of passion became a heroic tenor: “We shall host a literary event that will makethe whole of Warsaw tremble. On...

Vilna Partisan and Yiddish cultural activist Chayele Palevsky has died

דעם 20סטן סעפּטעמבער, דעם צווייטן טאָג ראָש־השנה, איז חיהלע פּאָרוס פּאַלעווסקי, אַ יאָרן־לאַנגע קולטור־טוערין פֿאַר ייִדיש און פֿאַרן אָנדענק פֿון דער ווילנער קולטור־ירושה — און איינע פֿון די לעצט־געבליבענע פֿון די ווילנער פּאַרטיזאַנער —...

Boris Sandler, Treplekh aroyf tsu a nes: a sibe far a mesibe

On Sunday 12 July 2020, the Congress for Jewish Culture together with the California Institute for Yiddish Culture and Language, and Yung Yidish of Tel Aviv honored the Yiddish writer Boris Sandler, celebrating his...