People who want to learn more about Yiddish culture can now sign up for several online courses at YIVO. The classes will be taught in English. In the course “Seasons in Yiddish Song,” the Yiddish ...

An art song, a piece written to be sung with piano accompaniment and often set to a poem, showcases the emotion and melody of a national or folk tradition in an intimate and refined setting. The ...

Pittsburgh is gearing up to celebrate Yiddish culture with a vibrant lineup of upcoming events. Scheduled for Nov. 13-16, the ...

“Amid Falling Walls,” a new production from the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene, brings to life poetry and songs created by Jews during the Holocaust. (New York Jewish Week) – “Humanity’s most ...

Part of Central Park’s iconic SummerStage series, “New York Sings Yiddish” will take place on June 14. (New York Jewish Week) — This summer, New Yorkers will have the opportunity to hear their ...

Yiddish is the language of the Jews of Eastern Europe and all the places to which they spread. It is the language of socialists and capitalists, the Partisans who fought the Nazis and most of the ...

7:30 p.m. The 2018 Ashkenaz Festival opening concert brings together jazz singer Sophie Milman and Russia’s greatest living Roma violinist, Sergei Erdenko, heading an 11-member ensemble performing ...

“Jews, have faith,” Mordechai Gebirtig, the celebrated Yiddish poet, wrote in 1940. “Revel, dance,” he pleaded: “There was once a Haman, his end awaits.” Though the Nazis would murder Gebirtig in ...

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — A daughter's heartwarming story of connection through music inspires a local Yiddish concert. Candy Cohn, owner of Oasis Senior Advisors, is sponsoring a performance by ...

(AP) Chana Mlotek, a noted archivist of Yiddish folk music and an impassioned collector of Yiddish songs from the shtetls of Europe, has died at age 91. She died of cancer Monday at her Bronx home, ...

People have been responding to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza in many ways - some by donating money to humanitarian projects, others by protesting. Earlier this month, a fundraising album of songs ...

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