Chaim Grade on Yiddish Literature
Chaim Grade on the significance of modern Yiddish literature in Jewish History. From a lecture held at the Jewish Public Library of Montreal, December 7th, ...
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Yiddish Literature, African Literature, and Modernism
Marc Caplan - Professor of Yiddish Literature, Language, and Culture at Johns Hopkins University - explains how Yiddish and African literature deal similarly ...
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"A Slice of Life": Why I Love Yiddish Literature
Judith Klau, english teacher, explains why Yiddish literature means so much to her. To learn more about the Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project, ...
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"Whatever Yiddish You Can Learn, Learn It"
Ted Steinberg, Distinguished Teaching Professor at SUNY Fredonia, offers a call-to-arms for potential students of Yiddish literature and speaks about how ...
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Mendele and the Explosion of the Yiddish Literature
Ted Steinberg, Distinguished Teaching Professor at SUNY Fredonia, speaks about his interest in Mendele Mocher Sforim (Sholem Yankev Abramovich) and the ...
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Ruth Wisse on anti-Semitism, Jewish Politics, and Yiddish Literature
The distinguished Harvard professor discusses Anti-Semitism, Jewish Politics, and What we can learn from Yiddish Literature. Click "Show more" to view all ...
Conversations with Bill Kristol
Finding Unexpected Connections: Why People Should Read Yiddish Literature
Talia Margolis Chomstein – Yiddish activist based in Mexico City – explains why reading can give such insight and knowledge about a culture or a group of ...
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Yiddish: Biography of a Language
Wednesday Feb 17, 2021 1:00pm Jeffrey Shandler's new book, Yiddish: Biography of a Language, presents the story of Yiddish, the defining vernacular of ...
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
"A Holy Mission": The Urgent Need to Translate Yiddish Literature
Rachel Rojanski, Professor of Judaic Studies at Brown University, reflects on the future of Yiddish and urges that the translation into Hebrew and English of the ...
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Women Writers in Yiddish Literature with Anita Norich and Karolina Szymaniak (In Yiddish)
Thursday Jul 22, 2021 1:30pm In recent decades, a new generation of scholarship has shed light on literary works in Yiddish produced by women writers.
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Translation and the Importance of Accessing Yiddish Literature
Sara Israel, former Yiddish Book Center fellow, discusses her work on translation and the importance of making Yiddish literature accessible. To learn more ...
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Why Learn Yiddish? Literature, And To Understand the Past
Anna Stusser, 2011 Steiner Summer Program student, talks about her reasons for learning Yiddish. To learn more about the Wexler Oral History Project, visit: ...
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Great Literature Is Not About Being Average: Possibilities For Yiddish Literature Today
The Yiddish Book Center's academic director, Joshua Lambert, considers the question of the Yiddish revival. Lambert discusses how he does not prefer the term ...
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"On the Edge of the Volcano: Yiddish Literature in Berlin Before the Third Reich" with Rachel Seelig
The UJA Committee for Yiddish and The Toronto Workmen's Circle present a Holocaust Education Lecture with Dr. Rachel Seelig "On the Edge of the Volcano: ...
Committee for Yiddish
Growing up with Argentinean Yiddish Literature
Abraham Lichtenbaum - Yiddish teacher and director of the IWO (YIVO, Yiddish Research Institute) in Buenos Aires, Argentina - tells how his father was often ...
Yiddish Book Center
It's Foreign but Not Foreign: Reading Classic Yiddish Literature
Renate Fairweather, Yiddish teacher based in Oklahoma City, describes the feeling of reading classic works of Yiddish literature. To see the full interview and ...
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Yiddish Literature Excluded From Anthologies
Ted Steinberg, Distinguished Teaching Professor at SUNY Fredonia, expresses his frustration about the absence of Yiddish literature in anthologies of world ...
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Yiddish LIterature as Part of Larger Western Tradition
Ted Steinberg, Distinguished Teaching Professor at SUNY Fredonia, speaks about his current project of getting Yiddish literature recognized as world literature ...
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Images of Lublin in Yiddish literature - Prof. Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska
After over twenty years of this work, the Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre Center in cooperation with the WSPA University College in Lublin and the Panorama Kultur ...
Brama Grodzka
Kadia Molodowsky: Portraying women's voices in Yiddish literature
Kadia Molodowsky, born in May of 1894, was a popular Yiddish writer in Poland and later in the US. She brought Jewish women's struggles - and voices - to the ...
World Jewish Congress
Jewish Children's Literature in Russian and Yiddish | YIVO and the Bodleian Library
Monday Jun 22, 2021 1:00pm Scholars, archivists, and curators explore the rich world of Jewish children's literature in pre-WWII Europe. This webinar outlines ...
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Old Yiddish Literature, Folklore and Yiddish as a World Literature
כנס ירושלים: מאה שנות יידיש 2008-1908 The Jerusalem Conference: A Century of Yiddish 1908-2008 Sponsored by: The Institute for Advanced Studies, The ...
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Memories of Yiddish LIterature and Song at Shule
Rena Trefman Cobrinik, writer and educator, fondly remembers attending Yiddishe Shule. She recites a poem and sings a song she learned during this rich, ...
Yiddish Book Center
A Birdseye View of the Development of Yiddish Literature and Culture | Eugene Orenstein (In Yiddish)
June 27, 2019 YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Yiddish Civilization Lecture Series Eugene Orenstein | Delivered in Yiddish. Beginning with the first complete ...
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"Plagues in Yiddish Literature", Yiddish Lecture with Dr. Miriam Trinh
"Plagues in Yiddish Literature" with Dr. Miriam Trinh "Megeyfes in der Yidisher Literature" "מגפֿות אין דער ײִדישער ליטעראַטור" Sunday, July 5, 2020 | 2:00 pm EST ...
Committee for Yiddish
"If Not Higher:" Discovering Jewish Values Through Yiddish Literature
Marlene Hait, raised in a Yiddish home by survivors of the Holocaust, speaks about I.L. Peretz's Yiddish story "If Not Higher" and discusses how it has inspired ...
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"Yiddish Literature was funded on the proceeds of the sales
Michael Wex talks about how relatives of Yiddish Poet, Esther Shumiatcher, funded Yiddish Literature by the sale of cowboy hats. The true cowboy hats, Smith ...
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Caraid O’Brien On Discovering Yiddish Culture Through A Love of Literature and Irish Culture
Caraid O'Brien—writer, performer, and director, including of Yiddish works—reflects on how she came to Yiddish through literature, and the parallels she ...
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Hebraist kindergarten, Hebraist school, and a love for Yiddish literature
Israel Bartal - Professor of Jewish History at Hebrew University - talks about the zealous Hebraist education that he received in Israel and how it led to the ...
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Yiddish Literature after World War II
Professor Sam Kassow notes the "nostalgic glow" of post-war Yiddish literature. Kassow cites Grade, Sutzkever, Glatshteyn, and Molodowsky, among others, ...
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Brama Talks: Images of Lublin and the Lublin Region in Yiddish Literature
During our fourth Brama Talks meeting, professor Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska, an expert on comparative literature and Yiddish literature and culture, will ...
Brama Grodzka
“There Are Some Younger People Who Are Creating Yiddish Literature”: A List
Barnett Zumoff, Yiddish translator and President Emeritus of the Workmen's Circle/Arbeiter Ring, on some of the people he sees as comprising the contemporary ...
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Reading Circle + Discussion about Race in Yiddish Literature
This Thursday, we hosted a Yiddish reading circle with translation, led by Dr. Marc Caplan. We read Joseph Opatoshu's short story “Lintsherai” (“A Lynching”), ...
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The 'Yidishe mame,' or Yiddish Mother, in Yiddish literature
'Yidishe mame in der yidisher literatur' - the Yiddish mother in Yiddish literature; 'un dos mol, di trern fun der yidisher mame' - and this time, the tears of the ...
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Wednesday Lunch at the Divinity School with Sunny Yudkoff on "Yiddish Literature in the Sanatorium"
Subscribe to UChicago Divinity School's YouTube Page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCuAML_eHRILTUegijPW-ng Sunny Yudkoff, Lecturer in ...
The University of Chicago
Yiddish Modernism in Weimar Berlin (1)
[English with Russian subtitles] First talk in Prof. Marc Caplan's mini series "Yiddish Modernism in Weimar Berlin" at the Eshkolot Festival "Metropolis: Berlin as ...
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Food in Yiddish literature and folklore
There is an old Yiddish proverb: Altz ken a mench fargesn, nor nit dos esn ("A man can forget about everything except food"). In Yiddish culture, food really takes ...
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Yiddish Women Writers (Part 1) with Avraham Novershtern (In Yiddish)
Monday Jul 12, 2021 4:30pm Avraham Novershtern | Delivered in Yiddish. Any analysis of Yiddish poetry by women must take into consideration the ...
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
Can German and Yiddish Speakers Understand Each Other?
Can German and Yiddish speakers understand each other? In this episode we showcase some of the similarities and test the degree of mutual intelligibility ...
Bahador Alast
Yiddish Modernism in Weimar Berlin (3)
[English with Russian subtitles] Third talk in Prof. Marc Caplan's mini series "Yiddish Modernism in Weimar Berlin" at the Eshkolot Festival "Metropolis: Berlin as ...
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Honey on the Page: A Treasury of Yiddish Children's Literature
[Live on Zoom] Yiddish Children's Literature Today Wednesday Oct 7, 2020 1:00pm The Jewish children's literature field is booming and the call to provide ...
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Falling in Love with Yiddish through Literature
Childhood Yiddish speaker, Marilyn Cassotta, recalls how she fell in love with Yiddish through reading the greats of Yiddish literature. She describes the beauty ...
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