Tag: Yiddish
September 17, 1724: Glückel Of Hamelnm, Yiddish writer, died on this date
Glikl bas Judah Leib, or Glückel of Hameln, a diarist whose writings in Yiddish provided scholars with an intimate picture of German Jewish ghetto life in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, died on this...
Yiddish and Other Languages
I speak French with my head and Yiddish with my heart.
I learned French in school and made it my field of study and my profession. I know it well enough to call myself functionally...
אַ נײַ ייִדיש־לערנבוך פֿאַר רוסיש־רעדער
דעם ניו־יאָרקער „אַרבעטער־רינג‟ איז שווער זיך פֿאָרצושטעלן אָן זײַן לאַנגיאָריקן ייִדיש־לערער, ניקאָלײַ (קאָליע) באָראָדולין. גלײַך נאָכן אָנקומען קיין אַמעריקע פֿון זײַן היימשטאָט, ביראָבידזשאַן, אינעם יאָר 1992, האָט ער זיך פֿאַרנומען מיט ייִדיש־טעטיקייט.
אַחוץ זײַן אַרבעט...
Japanese Choir singing “My Yiddishe Mame”
My Yiddisha Mame
Lyrics Jack Yellen (1892 - 1991), Music Lew Pollack (1895 – 1946)
Jack Yellen was born in Poland on July 6, 1892. When he was five years old, his family immigrated to America...
“Oyfn vegh shteit a boym”, lullaby in Yiddish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os5UeFjBFTs
On the way stands a tree
He stands grown
All birds from the tree
Went up and flown
Three turn to the west, three to the east
And the rest to South
And the tree was left alone
Vacant for the...
The League for Yiddish is looking for an Executive Director
The League for Yiddish is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Executive Director, to begin in February 2020.
The position is currently part-time, with the possibility of full-time, given the creation of additional initiatives,...
Benyumen Shekhter Foundation now accepting grant proposals
The Benyumen Shekhter Foundation for the Advancement of Standard Yiddish is now accepting grant proposals.
We are seeking well-structured initiatives that encourage people to actively speak, read and write in Yiddish.
Previous projects have included online...
How Sweden Became the Epicenter of Yiddish Children’s Media
In 1999, Yiddish was declared an official national minority language in Sweden, alongside Finnish, Romani, Meänkieli, and the Sami languages. There’s federal funding in Sweden for media produced in all its national minority languages—so Sweden, of all...
Verter fun der Vokh: דער קלימאַ֜טן־בײַט : Climate change
Climate change
דער קלימאַ֜טן־בײַט
carbon footprint: די קוי֜לנשטאָף־שפּור
climate change: דער קלימאַ֜טן־בײַט
freeze (vi.): פֿאַרפֿרױ֜רן װערן
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“Shtisel” Opens Up New Possibilities For the Yiddish Theater Read more: http://yiddish.forward.com/articles/215629/shtisel-opens-up-new-possibilities-for-the-yiddish/#ixzz5s51XqJdq
די אומגעריכטע הצלחה פֿון „פֿידלער אויפֿן דאַך אויף ייִדיש‟ האָט, סוף־כּל־סוף, געוויזן דער וועלט אַז דער טעאַטער־עולם איז גרייט און וויליק צו זען אַ מיוזיקל וווּ דער דיאַלאָג און די לידער זענען אין גאַנצן...