Folklore scholar Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett doesn’t remember interviewing and recording the Yiddish folksinger Rose Cohen ...
The quartet of classically trained musicians delighted audience members with favorite tunes from childhood at The Education ...
For the past 15 years, the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene has raised awareness to this moment in American history and ...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is usually remembered as a towering figure of European culture: poet, playwright, scientist, and ...
“Sons and Daughters” is quite probably the last great Yiddish novel. Chaim Grade, who was born in what is now Lithuania, in 1910, and spent the second half of his life in the Bronx, wrote it from the ...
Richmond Yiddish Week runs Saturday, Jan. 10, through Friday, Jan. 16, with one event each day highlighting the historic ...
A new book explores how, contrary to popular belief, Christmas was a festive time for Jewish men, who took time off from Torah study to play cards and games ...
Theatre Or will present the Colorado premiere of The Last Yiddish Speaker from March 28 through April 19, written by Deborah ...
This is one of many Yiddish festivals that took place this year around the U.S., including Seattle and Albuquerque ...
While there’s never been a Yiddish festival in Richmond — or even Virginia — there’s a growing international movement of people like Shokin and Kraft (Yiddishists) who are committed to the study and ...
The preservation of Yiddish as a spoken language gets more attention, but Yiddish once had a vibrant written tradition as well. Plays, poetry, novels, political tracts — all were published in Yiddish ...