Annenberg Foundation Funds Yiddishkayt Multi-Year Jewish Arts, Culture Fellowship
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Remembering Soviet Yiddish
Jewish Journal
July 26, 2011
Since the 1950s, the so-called Night of the Murdered Poets has become a summertime ritual for Yiddish cultural circles in the United States.
‘Delancey’ dramatizes Yiddish radio’s reality show
Jewish Journal
June 21, 2011
In 2002, director/playwright Karen Sommers heard a story on National Public Radio about the Jewish American Board of Peace and Justice, a Jewish mediation court on the Lower East Side of New York that adjudicated disputes among community members between the late 1930s and 1956. The proceedings took place in a back room of the House of Sages, a synagogue led by Rabbi Shmuel Aaron Rubin, who presided over the cases, which were recorded and carried on such Yiddish radio stations as WLTH and WEVD. According to the Yiddish Radio Project Web site, where many of the programs heard on old-time Yiddish radio are archived, the conflicts covered everything from “the complaints of abandoned parents to altercations over ill-fitting sheets.”
With the Center for Jewish History debt free, its founding chairman steps down
Jewish Journal
May 24, 2011
One night back in 1985, businessman Bruce Slovin was walking home from a corporate board meeting with a lawyer named Joe Greenberger when Greenberger asked him about his involvement in the Jewish world.
Let There Be Yiddish
Jane Ulman
July 6, 2006
Tonight is a Yiddish service, Zol Zahn Shabbes — literally, we should have Shabbat — and it\’s happening at Beth Chayim Chadashim (BCC), founded in 1972 as the world\’s first synagogue for lesbian and gay Jews.
A Dying Language Comes to Life
Jane Ulman
February 23, 2006
The Yiddish words flew — sometimes fluently, sometimes haltingly and occasionally \”shreklich\” or awful as the seniors reached for a word long forgotten or the students for a word they had not yet learned. They raised their voices, gesturing with their hands as they spoke.
VH-1 Declares Jews ‘So Jewtastic’
Keren Engelberg
December 15, 2005
It\’s official. According to VH-1, it is now hip to be Hebrew. The music television channel premieres \”VH-1 All Access: So Jewtastic\” on Dec. 19, making a case for the current trendiness of our tribe.
Rebels: The Other Face of Chasidim
Hella Winston
November 24, 2005
Stan is deeply attracted to the Lubavitch way of life: He longs for a wife and house full of children and is drawn by the prospect of fully expressing his Jewish identity as a member of a tight-knit community, steeped in Jewish tradition and insulated from the pressures of modern life.
A Bissel ‘Kvetch’ Goes a Long Way
Allan Nadler
September 29, 2005
Wex analyzes the many ways that Yiddish — a language that has perfected the art of the curse while experiencing deep discomfort with praise — developed a strategy to deal with those rare times when a Yiddish Jew (henceforth, the \”Yid\”) has nothing negative, nasty or bitter to say.
Windows to the Yiddish Soul
David Finnigan
December 16, 2004
Russia\’s Yiddish actors, playwrights and poets are some of the oft-forgotten victims of the 20th century\’s murderous Stalinist purges.
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