Tag: Literature
Der Gliklecher Mentsh דער גליקלעכער מענטש yiddish cartoon
A mayse far kinder un far di vos lernen zikh oys yidish
Der Gliklekher Mentsh. (El Hombrte feliz / The happy person )
דער גליקלעכער מענטש
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Multicultural Animated Project "Four Directions of Fairy Tales" (Cztery Strony Bajek)
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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...
American Jewish poet Louise Glück wins Nobel Prize in Literature
American Jewish poet Louise Glück won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal,” said the Nobel Committee on Thursday.
She is just the...
Read Sholem Aleichem’s story, “What a Sukkah!” (includes audio)
מע קען זיך צוהערן צו אַנדערע אַרטיקלען פֿונעם פֿאָרווערטס פֿאָרגעלייענט דורך שׂרה־רחל שעכטער, ווי אויך אַנדערע פֿאָרווערטס־רעקאָרדירונגען, דורכן קוועטשן דאָ.
פֿאַראַן מענטשן, װאָס האָבן קײן זאַך נישט געלערנט און קאָנען אַלצדינג; אין ערגעץ נישט געװעזענע און...
Library of Congress honors Israeli literary program
The U.S. Library of Congress has announced that Keren Grinspoon Israel (KGI, the Grinspoon Israel Foundation) has been selected as a 2020 Library of Congress Literacy Awards Program Best Practice Honoree.
It is the first in Israel to...
August 22, 1609: Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel, known as the “Maharal” of Prague,...
Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel, known as the “Maharal” of Prague, died on this date in 1609. Legend and literature credit him with constructing and animating the Golem in order to protect and serve...
The Squeaky Door
In honor of the yahrtzeit of Ze’ev Jabotinsky, here is an excerpt from Chapter 13 of the historical novel, “The Lion’s Roar,” the third volume in the “Tevye in the Promised Land” series by...
July 17, 1921: Hannah Szenes, a member of the Jewish resistance against Nazism, was...
Hannah Senesh (originally Szenes) was a paratrooper trained to rescue Jews during the Holocaust. Captured and killed by the Nazi's, she is still a national heroine in Israel.
Through her brief but noteworthy life, Senesh...
May 27, 1915: The writer Herman Wouk, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, was born
On May 27, 1915, the writer Herman Wouk was born, who died in May 2019 shortly after his 104th birthday. Among his best-known writings are "The Mutiny of the Caine" and "A Girl of...