Yiddish
Italy is having a Yiddish moment. An unprecedented I.J. Singer translation is part of the boom.
The novelist’s dispatches from his 1932 journey through America are newly available in Italian.
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Despite boycotts and cancellation, Israeli entertainers stay proud of identity - from the editor
Israel urges rabbis to help stop Iranian spy recruitment after dozens of indictments - report
This New York City cantor is making modern Yiddish music that swings
In order to bring Yiddish musical theater into the world of jazz, Yisroel Leshes had to reinvent the genre.
YIVO’s vast archives of Yiddish life are reunited online
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research founded in Vilna before World War II and collected millions of Yiddish texts.
Yiddish copies of Christian Bible distributed in Rockland County, NY
Rockland County has a very dense ultra-Orthodox Jewish population, especially in places like Monsey and Spring Valley. The Yiddish copies of the New Testament are linked to missionary organizations.
Yiddish theater category on ‘Jeopardy!’ makes one contestant a rich(er) man
This week, the contestants are all college professors as part of the show’s first-ever professors tournament, and the host is Mayim Bialik.
Sweden’s national theater stages its first ever Yiddish production
The performances marked its debut in Sweden, and the first time ever that a play in Yiddish was staged at Sweden’s national theater company — the only home that its local backers considered.
French Jewish artist Chaim Soutine rediscovered in suitcase trove of letters
The forgotten legacy of Henri Serouya, historian, intellectual, philosopher, author of many acclaimed books and learned articles, all in French was found by the author in a suitcase in a basement.
Painted Jewish time machines: New exhibition challenges multi-cultural norms
The exhibition has a work that presents a powerful vision of Hell, but it may leave the viewers alone when they wonder what moral responsibilities they have now, having witnessed it?
Why do people love dead Jews?
Novelist and academic Dara Horn's new book gets to the core question underlying every antisemitic act: For many gentiles “Jews were people who were supposed to be dead."
Forgotten novel by Sholom Aleichem published in English for first time
Sholom Aleichem, the pen name of Shalom Rabinowitz (1859-1916), was a masterful storyteller whose keen eye, wit and humor earned him the reputation as the Jewish Mark Twain.
Grapevine October 3, 2021: October 6 – a significant date
Movers and shakers in Israeli society.
