Yiddish
Dr. Irene Aue-Ben-David: Preserving the history of German Jewry - interview
Jerusalemite of the Week: A conversation with Leo Baeck Institute director Dr. Irene Aue-Ben-David on preserving German Jewish history.
Ultra-Orthodox child forgotten on bus and left alone at West Bank checkpoint, police probe parents
Leah, and the inner truth we need in an age of illusion - opinion
Saul Rubinek’s new one-man show asks, is there ever a right time to play Shylock?
The last Yiddish artist: Work of Anatoly Kaplan on display in Jerusalem
Who was Anatoly Kaplan and why has he been honored with this retrospective in a city he would never get to visit?
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.
Grapevine May 14, 2023: A crisis of another kind
Movers and shakers in Israeli society.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The timeless debate
The book shows that the religion v. secularism debate transcends different eras
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.
