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Yiddish

Spoken-word poet Ariel Luckey
Posted inStorytelling

Performance pair remixes Yiddish tales and poems for new audiences

Laura Pall by Laura Paull December 28, 2018December 27, 2018
Book of J duo Jeremiah Lockwood and Jewlia Eisenberg
Posted inMusic

Where delta blues, queer liturgy and Yiddish protest songs meet

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky September 21, 2018December 3, 2025
A Palestinian flag flying in Gaza City in 2015 (JTA/Photo-Mohammed Abed-AFP-Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

Dems’ support for Israel on the rise; Gaza is a distraction; and proof that this newspaper doesn’t speak Yiddish

by J. Readers April 5, 2018
An after-work Hebrew lesson for new emigres in Dimona, 1955 (Photo/Moshe Pridan-National Photo Collection)
Posted inIsrael at 70

‘Yiddish not spoken here’ — but my dad had a different idea

Vavi Toran by Vavi Toran April 5, 2018April 6, 2018
Russian-American singer-songwriter Psoy Korolenko on stage with the band (Photo/Roman Boldyrev, r-lerman.ca)
Posted inCulture

Silenced for years, songs of Soviet Jews heard again in all their ‘Yiddish Glory’

by Andrew Muchin February 20, 2018August 20, 2018
Gerry Tenney brings Yiddish culture to B’nai Tikvah students. (Photo/Maya Mirsky)
Posted inJewish Life

Putting a bisl Yiddish culture back in Sunday school

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 1, 2018January 31, 2018
A 1949 poster printed by Firschein Press in Brooklyn advertises "The 13-year-old wonder kid, Cantor Leibele Zavin." (Photo/Flickr-MagnesMuseum)
Posted inCulture

Vintage posters will take you back to old Jewish Brooklyn

by Rob Gloster January 18, 2018January 24, 2018
From the cover of "The People of Godlbozhits" by Leyb Rashkin
Posted inColumns

Three newly translated works are a blast from the past

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman January 9, 2018August 20, 2018
From the New Yiddish Rep’s staging of  “Awake and Sing!” featuring (from left) Ronit Asheri, Moshe Lobel, Lea Kalisch, David Mandelbaum and Eli Rosen. (Photo/JTA-Pedro Hernandez)
Posted inCulture

Classic ‘Awake and Sing!’ gets Yiddish update while touching on immigration

by Andrew Silow-Carroll December 18, 2017March 23, 2018
YIVO announced last month the discovery of 170,000 Jewish documents that were thought to be destroyed by the Nazis. (Photo/JTA-Thos Robinson-Getty Images for YIVO)
Posted inUncategorized

5 amazing newly recovered Yiddish documents hidden during the Holocaust

Josefin Dolsten by Josefin Dolsten November 16, 2017November 16, 2017

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