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Online course on Tevye the Dairyman
Free online course on Sholem Aleichem’s character Tevye the Dairyman, with Professor Ruth Wisse.
December 19, 2019
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New on-line English-Yiddish Dictionary
New on-line English-Yiddish Dictionary, searchable in both directions, available for your subscription from League for Yiddish.
December 19, 2019
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New video from YidLife Crisis. Sept. 2019
Enjoy “An Anticementish Episode.” Humor about a serious subject.
December 19, 2019
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Reyna Schaechter sings “Yisrolik”
Reyna Schaechter (now a Bay Area resident) performs the moving song, “Yisrolik.” Created for a theater production in the Vilna (Vilnius) ghetto in early 1942,
December 19, 2019
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Yiddish Wedding Hop: The Archives of Song Collector Ruth Rubin
by Eleonore Biezunski and Lorin Sklamberg “[The Yiddish folk saying] ‘Tsu zingen un tsu zogn’ [To sing and to say]…derives from the time when the
August 17, 2019
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S’vet Nit Eybik Finster Zayn (It will not be dark forever)
A song in Yiddish, Hebrew, and Hungarian. Read more »
July 26, 2019
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Yiddish “Fiddler on the Roof” director Joel Grey and actor Steven Skybell interviewed on National Public Radio by Terry Gross
A new Yiddish language production of the musical is currently running off-Broadway. Steven Skybell, who plays Tevye, and Joel Grey, who directs the show, explain
July 17, 2019
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