yiddish

Meet Zalmen Mlotek, US Yiddish Theater artistic director

I recently interviewed Zalmen in New York about his life, upbringing and career that he has been so passionate about his whole life.

By JOSEPH SCUTTS
20/05/2023

Grapevine May 3, 2023: A different aspect of Liverpool

The coronation of King Charles and his Queen Consort Camilla is providing plenty of fodder for media outlets in Britain and around the world.

‘The Last Yiddish poet’ Rivka Basman Ben-Haim dies

She started writing poetry at the camp as a way of boosting her fellow inmates’ morale, and managed to smuggle some of her poems out in her mouth.

By ZELDA KAHAN NEWMAN , JERUSALEM POST STAFF
29/03/2023

My grandmother was a 'Sherlock Holmes' but couldn't solve antisemitism

Now is as welcome a time as any to celebrate Jewish life, learn a Yiddish song and discover the lessons of history along the way.

By RABBI AVRAM MLOTEK/JTA
22/03/2023

March comes in with a roar of new Yiddish music

This month a collection of new Yiddish songs will be performed for the first time in America at a Manhattan museum.

By Jon Kalish/JTA
04/03/2023

Remembering family names is hard when you have so many - opinion

At the beginning, it was relatively easy. He could handle the names of his two kids, their spouses and seven grandchildren. But it all became a bit more unwieldy.

25/02/2023

The timeless debate

The book shows that the religion v. secularism debate transcends different eras

Shtetl in Poland

A Yiddish treasure with a soap opera backstory

This week YIVO and the NLI will announce the completion of the digitization of writer Chaim Grade's entire archive.

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL / JTA
06/02/2023

Germany celebrates UNESCO World Heritage listing for Yiddish and Ashkenazi culture birthplace

The sites in the upper part of the Rhine River valley are known as the origin point of Ashkenazi culture and where the Yiddish language first began to develop over 1,000 years ago.

By DAVID I. KLEIN/JTA
04/02/2023
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