Tag: Yiddish

Moti Giladi sings “My Way” in Yiddish (Mayn veg) at the Festival of Jewish Culture in Warsaw: “Singer’s Warsaw” in Warsaw, Poland, in 2007. The festival, which has been taking place since 2004, is named after...

פֿון אַלטן אַוו‮עק, צום נײַעם פֿאָרויס! מיר ווינטשן אײַך אַלעמען אַ גוט יאָר, אַ ‮גליקלעך יאָר, און – צום סאַמע וויכטיקס‮טן – אַ געזונט יאָר! Out with the old, in with the new! We wish you all a good...

On YouTube in honor of today's December 16th birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven here's the Yiddish adaptation and the new choral adaptation of his "Ode to Joy" from his Ninth Symphony "Brider" ("Brothers") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF7F1K5m5A4 Performed by the...

Dear Friends, As many of you already know, the League for Yiddish has big news. After 15 years, our devoted executive director/editor-in-chief of Afn Shvel Sheva Zucker is retiring. Sheva was instrumental in reshaping Afn Shvel into the beautiful...

Preservation New Jersey presents IKH ZING: The Yiddish Tradition,  a celebration of Yiddish culture from Europe and the Americas through song, performed by The Murad – Zinger Duo featuring Nicole Murad, vocalist and and Pablo Zinger, piano. The program will...

אין מײַ 2019 האָט „די ייִדישע שטוב לאָנדאָן‟ — אַ גרופּע יונגע ייִדישיסטן וואָס פֿירן דורך ייִדישע אונטערנעמונגען אין דער ענגלישער קרוינשטאָט — אָנגעהױבן אַן אייגנאַרטיקן פּראָיעקט צו פֿאַרשטאַרקן די סאָציאַלע און קולטורעלע נעץ...

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...

Yiddish poem: I. L. Peretz (1852-1915) Original music: Beethoven's 9th Symphony Choral adaptation: Binyumen Schaechter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF7F1K5m5A4 Filmed live in performance November 1, 2015 • Merkin Concert Hall, NYC Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus Binyumen Schaechter, conductor Shinae Kim, pianist Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thejppc Website: http://www.TheJPPC.org Contact: information@TheJPPC.org

The *beautiful* Yiddish Chanukah song "Borekh ate" ("Blessed Art Thou") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPyFJb_0FWo Performed by the Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus / JPPC Binyumen Schaechter, Conductor And if you haven't yet seen the following here's the JPPC performing the *playful* Yiddish Chanukah...

The groundbreaking online dictionary you have been “sitting on shpilkes” for has finally arrived! The League for Yiddish is thrilled to bring you the "Comprehensive ONLINE English-Yiddish Dictionary", Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath & Paul Glasser, co-editors-in-chief based...