Here’s a selection of photos, videos and recordings from the Yiddish Book Center's permanent exhibition to get you started ...
Folklore scholar Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett doesn’t remember interviewing and recording the Yiddish folksinger Rose Cohen ...
The Vulgar Bulgars opened with several tightly harmonized and adventurously arranged klezmer instrumentals. Local singer Nina ...
The YIVO Institute looks at the Jewish “language war” in Palestine before the founding of the Jewish state. (New York Jewish Week) — Just before the end of the second millennium, Ezer Weizman, then ...
The quartet of classically trained musicians delighted audience members with favorite tunes from childhood at The Education ...
Richmond Yiddish Week runs Saturday, Jan. 10, through Friday, Jan. 16, with one event each day highlighting the historic ...
Penn Yiddish professor Kathryn Hellerstein discussed the role of translation in Yiddish women’s poetry and its influence on literary history at an event hosted by Kelly Writers House on Feb. 19.
Virginia’s capital city is having a few big inaugurals this January. Not only will Richmond see the state’s first female ...
For the past 15 years, the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene has raised awareness to this moment in American history and ...
The Yiddish Book Center is something of a misnomer. The Amherst, Massachusetts, institution runs language classes, trains translators, produces podcasts, hosts the summer music festival Yidstock, and ...
AMHERST, Massachusetts (JTA) — Since its opening in 1997, the Yiddish Book Center has wowed visitors with its architecture. A Jewish village resurrected on a college campus in sylvan Amherst, ...
Theatre Or will present the Colorado premiere of The Last Yiddish Speaker from March 28 through April 19, written by Deborah ...