Tag: Yiddish Literature
Verter fun der Vokh – War In Israel
Fifty years after the Yom Kippur war, the State of Israel has experienced a huge surprise attack during a Jewish holiday. This time the attackers were Hamas terrorists who attacked with both airstrikes and...
Uncovering the Yiddish-language tales about Knights of the Round Table that Jews (and non-Jews)...
Have you heard of the Yiddish-language King Arthur stories written between the 14th – 18th centuries? These retellings of Arthurian tales for Jewish audiences were tremendously popular for centuries, though they aren’t well known today, as...
Yiddish Word of the Day: Rain
Yiddish Word of the Day: Rain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdpZqnt7DUs
A Yom Kippur story
The synagogue packed with people praying under their white tallises looks like "a forest of snow-covered trees" and everyone prays the same prayer, but under each tallis there is a different person with different...
Yiddish Word of the Day: Rosh Hashanah
Yiddish Word of the Day: Rosh Hashanah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf93TyLywzs
Yiddish Crosswords
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Yosef Guri, who collected Yiddish proverbs, has died
ד״ר יוסף גורי, אַ פּראָפֿעסאָר פֿון רוסיש וואָס איז ווי אַ קינד על־פּי־נס ניצול געוואָרן פֿונעם חורבן און האָט געשטרעבט צו פֿאַראייביקן דאָס לשון פֿון זײַנע אומגעבראַכטע עלטערן, איז די וואָך ניפֿטר געוואָרן. ער...
David G. Roskies, “Rabbis, Rebbes and Other Humanists: The Search for a Usable Past...
David G. Roskies, “Rabbis, Rebbes and Other Humanists: The Search for a Usable Past in Modern Yiddish Literature,” Studies in Contemporary Jewry 12 (1996): 55-77
These Zydki, wooden figurines of traditionaal Polish Jews, come in...
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...
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...