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How the Yiddish ‘poet of the people’ wrote more than 500 songs yet struggled to be heard
Separate the signal from the noise about antisemitism and understand current debates over Jewish safety. Sign up for the Antisemitism Decoded newsletter today. One of the first 1900s Yiddish recording ...
Lea Koenig, who played Shulem Shtisel’s mother Malka in the popular Israeli TV series Shtisel, sings a Yiddish song in a new music video posted on YouTube. The lyrics are accompanied by English ...
The Shvesters don’t just perform in Yiddish — they also cover Hebrew songs — but they aim to help keep the language alive through their music. Yiddish as a spoken language has been on the decline ...
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Why children are singing in Yiddish in Rio de Janeiro
By the time the children began singing in Yiddish on their own at a playground in Rio de Janeiro, Sonia Kramer realized ...
What happened to Yiddish theater, how it came to be, why it faded and how it made a comeback are among the questions explored in “Immigrant Songs: Yiddish Theater and the American Jewish Experience,” ...
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