Category: Farshidns

Three Yiddish songs set to the melody of the Italian song Return to Sorrento (“There’s a sunset in Sorrento…”)

Free online course on Sholem Aleichem’s character Tevye the Dairyman, with Professor Ruth Wisse.

New on-line English-Yiddish Dictionary, searchable in both directions, available for your subscription from League for Yiddish.

Enjoy “An Anticementish Episode.” Humor about a serious subject.

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,

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