Tag: Yiddish
Popular language-learning app Duolingo launches Yiddish course
Duolingo, the world’s most popular language-learning platform, launched a Yiddish course on Tuesday.
The site teaches Yiddish through game-like lessons that take five to seven minutes a day. Lessons and exercises are adapted to the user’s...
Jacob Sandler, “Mayn Erster Tango” — מײַן ערשטער טאַנגאָ
Mayn Ershter Tango -- מײַן ערשטער טאַנגאָ
Recording:
On album: S-027(a) (Jacob Sandler Mayn Erster Tango -- מײַן ערשטער טאַנגאָ)
Track ID: 9845
Author/Composer/Artist Sandler, Jacob -- סאַנדלער, יעקבֿ
First line: Mayn ershtn tango mit dir, vel ikh in...
Traditional passover songs for listening, singing and enjoying!
The Maccabeats - Dayenu - Passover - דיינו
Music video for “Dayenu," a multi-genre twist on the classic Passover Seder song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZgDNPGZ9Sg&list=RDCZgDNPGZ9Sg&start_radio=1
Gad Elbaz - Ma Nishtana גד אלבז - מה נשתנה
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1rH7rYuZQE
Prayer-eoke: The Four Questions (Mah Nishtana...)...
Watch “Who Knows One?” Yiddish-style: “Mu adabru, mu asapru” in 4-part harmony
Traditional Yiddish Passover song with Aramaic title
Akin to the English “Who Knows One?”
Choral arrangement: Binyumen Schaechter (2017-18)
This choral arrangement was funded by a grant from The Marinus and Minna B. Koster Foundation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq4RUs27Eas
Jewish People’s Philharmonic...
Verter fun der Vokh: דער זו֜מער־זיי֜גער – Daylight Savings Time
Supporters of daylight saving time (DST) argue that it saves energy, promotes outdoor activity on summer evenings, and is, therefore, good for both physical and psychological health, reduces traffic accidents and crime, and is...
Verter fun der Vokh – International Women’s Day
אַ פֿרײלעכן אינטערנאַציאָנאַלן פֿרויענטאָג!
Happy International Women's Day!
Today the world honors the achievements of women, who are leaders in the movements for social justice, climate change and equality in all parts of the world. Women...
Verter fun der Vokh – Renewable Energy
Renewables made up 26.2 percent of global electricity generation in 2018. That’s expected to rise to 45 percent by 2040. Most of the increase will likely come from solar, wind, and hydropower.
דאָס באַנײַ֜עוודיקע רוי֜וואַרג...
March 4, 1910: Yiddish playwright Moshe Horowitz died
Moshe Ish HaLevy was born on 27 February in Stanislawow, Eastern Galicia to an orthodox family who were followers of the Gaon Hshl"kh. He studied with Rabbi Meshulam Horowitz and later in a house of...
STM, what we think, what we want, by Theodore Bikel
STM, what we think, what we want as expressed by Theodore Bikel in an interview with Miri Koral, founding director of The California Institute for Yiddish Culture & Language (CIYCL).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9nDdGANeyg
Spotlight Series: Theodore Bikel
Theodore Bikel...
“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...