“This Land is Your Land” in Yiddish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnP8zWcy1ZA
“Dos Land iz Dayn Land” Woody Guthrie’s
“This Land is Your Land”
Yiddish Translation by Linda Gritz & Daniel Kahn with Harry Bochner, Michael Alpert, & Josh Waletzky
Video and music produced, directed and edited by Daniel...
A Celebration of the Life and Work of Sholem Asch
An international celebration of Yiddish writer Sholem Asch’s life and work, including theater, films, music, photographs, sketches, satire, art, and family stories. Now in its 3rd year, Asch Wednesday 2021 streamed live, courtesy of...
WATCH: “Little Red Riding Hood” as a Purim tale
קאַמערין בערנשטיין, אַ יונגע שיקאַגער ייִדישיסטקע באַקאַנט פֿאַר אירע פּאָפּולערע קורצע ווידעאָס אויף דער סאָציאַלער נעץ „טיקטאָק“ וועגן דער ייִדישער שפּראַך און קולטור, האָט לכּבֿוד פּורים אַרויסגעלאָזט אַ לענגערן פֿילם אויף יוטוב.
אינעם ווידעאָ לייענט זי פֿאָר...
Listen and enjoy to “Di Megile” with the Bursteyn family in Itzik Manger’s unique...
Programs on Yiddish literature and culture recorded at Montreal's Jewish Public Library, 1953-2005.
About this program:
di megile fun itsik manger
Mit: איציק מאַנגער | דב זלצר | שמואל בונים
The Megile of Itzik Manger
Featuring: Itzik Manger |...
Millennial Bundism: An Interview with Isabel Frey
INTRODUCTION
Isabel Frey is a Vienna-based activist and musician who recently released a debut album, Millennial Bundist. Faith Hillis recently caught up with Frey on Zoom to ask about millennials’ rediscovery of the Bund, the place of Yiddish...
“Makhts Of!”, Yiddish Purim Song performed by The Jewish People’s Philharmonic Chorus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkXWTUFePNE
Traditional Yiddish Purim song
Choral arrangement: Binyumen Schaechter (2018)
Funded by a grant from the Marinus and Minna B. Koster Foundation
Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus / JPPC
דער ייִדישער פֿילהאַרמאָנישער פֿאָלקסכאָר
Binyumen Schaechter, Conductor
בנימין שעכטער, דיריגענט
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thejppc
Website: http://www.TheJPPC.org
Contact: information@TheJPPC.org
Filmed...
Verter fun der Vokh – Black History Month
לאַ֜נג נאָך דער אַבאָלי֜ציע האָבן אַפֿראָאַמעריקאַ֜נער נישט געהאַ֜ט די פֿו֜לע רעכט ווי בי֜רגערס און האָבן פֿאַ֜קטיש ווײַ֜טער געלע֜בט סעגרעגי֜רטע לעבנס און געלי֜טן פֿון דיסקרימינאַ֜ציע און ראַסי֜זם. נאָכן אײַ֜נפֿירן דאָס געזע֜ץ פֿאַר בי֜רגעררעכט אין 4691...
Megillah Cycle, by Itzik Manger (Megile-lider)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOOaYp996lg
A new dramatization of Itzik Manger's famous Megillah Cycle, directed by and featuring Mike Burstyn with Shane Baker; Eli Batalion and Jamie Elman of YidLife Crisis; Avi Hoffman; Daniel Kahn; Lia Koenig; Noah Mitchel;...
Yiddish Glory feat. Psoy Korolenko: “Shelakhmones Hitlern” (Purim Gifts for Hitler), A long lost...
About the song
"Shelakhmones Hitlern" (Purim Gifts for Hitler), a humorist song that makes fun of Hitler’s attempts to destroy Jewish people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DZOHiD2b7I&list=RDsdOsFg-PQ_M&index=9
Performers: Yiddish Glory feat. Psoy Korolenko
Writer: Public Domain
Composer: Sergei Erdenko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_qZ51-grJQ
February 19, 1997: Leo Rosten, author of “Joys Of Yiddish”, dies at age 88
Leo Rosten, the author of The Joys of Yiddish and numerous other popular, witty and erudite books, died on this date in 1997 in New York City at age 88. Rosten earned a doctorate in political...