On Sunday 12 July 2020, the Congress for Jewish Culture together with the California Institute for Yiddish Culture and Language, and Yung Yidish of Tel Aviv honored the Yiddish writer Boris Sandler, celebrating his recent publication of 4 new works entirely in Yiddish with a program entitled. Steps up to a Miracle: a Cause for […]
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Join Rukhl Schaechter, editor of the Forverts, as she explores the growing interest in Yiddish music, with singers Lorin Sklamberg, Daniel Kahn, Sarah Gordon, Michael Alpert and folksong maven Itzik Gottesman – and hear them sing the songs that audiences love to hear.
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די יערלעכע „פּוליצער־פּריזן“, וואָס ווערן אויסגעטיילט פֿון קאָלומביע־אוניווערסיטעט, זענען מסתּמא די חשובֿסטע אַמעריקאַנער פּרעמיעס לכּבֿוד דער אַרבעט פֿון זשורנאַליסטן. קאָלומביע־אוניווערסיטעט טיילט אויך אויס „פּוליצערס“ פֿאַר אויסגעצייכנטע ביכער און מוזיקאַלישע קאָמפּאָזיציעס. להיפּוך צו כּמעט אַלע באַרימטע פּריזן אַזוי ווי די אָסקאַרס און גרעמיס, וואָס לאָזן וויסן פֿון פֿריִער וועלעכע אַקטיאָרן צי מוזיקער מע האָט נאָמינירט, ווייסט […]
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“Novelty” musician Mickey Katz, who specialized in Jewish parodies of American classics (such as “Haym afn Range” and “She’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Katzkills”), died at 75 in Los Angeles on this date in 1985. Katz played clarinet and sax from childhood (in Cleveland) and was earning money as a musician even before his graduation from high […]
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“Bei Mir bist du shein” performed to the rhythm of various famous composers such as Gershwin, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, etc. And “Bei Mir Bist Du Shein” in multiple versions from all over the world: Budapest Klezmer Band The Hot Sardines Gunhild Carling Isis Big Band Timna Brauer The Airlettes Marline Eve The Andrew Sisters (The Barry […]
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ווען בענדזשי פֿאָקס־ראָזען האָט פֿאַרלאָזט ניו־יאָרק און זיך באַזעצט אין ווין מיט אַ פֿיר־פֿינף יאָר צוריק, האָט די ניו־יאָרקער קלעזמער־סבֿיבֿה פֿאַרלוירן איינער פֿון זײַנע נאָוואַטאָרישסטע זינגער און קאָמפּאָזיטאָרן. צום גליק קען מען, אַ דאַנק „יוטוב‟, געניסן פֿון זײַנע אויפֿטריטן אין ווין. דאָס לעצטע מאָל וואָס איך האָב געשריבן וועגן בענדזשי פֿאָקס־ראָזען, איז עס געווען אין […]
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Moti Giladi sings “My Way” in Yiddish (Mayn veg) at the Festival of Jewish Culture in Warsaw: “Singer’s Warsaw” in Warsaw, Poland, in 2007. The festival, which has been taking place since 2004, is named after the prominent Yiddish writer, Isaac Bashevis Singer [1902–1991], who was born in Poland at the turn of the 20th century. Singer was named […]
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The *beautiful* Yiddish Chanukah song “Borekh ate” (“Blessed Art Thou”) Performed by the Jewish People’s Philharmonic Chorus / JPPC Binyumen Schaechter, Conductor And if you haven’t yet seen the following here’s the JPPC performing the *playful* Yiddish Chanukah song “Fayer, fayer” (“Fire, Fire”) and the new contemporary choral arrangement of the classic song “Oy, Khanike, […]
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All that survives from the “golden age” of Yiddish radio in the 1930s to ’50s are a thousand fragile discs, rescued from storerooms, attics, and even dumpsters. But what a story they tell! The Yiddish Radio Project is a celebration of these recordings and of the forgotten geniuses and dreamers who created them. The exhibits […]
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