Soviet Yiddish News Today

“Yiddish: A Global Culture” is a “rich and revelatory account that places Yiddish at the heart of the modern Jewish story."

A special show today as I am joined by guest Professor Anna Shternshis, who is Professor of Yiddish studies and the director of the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. She was instrumental in recovering lost songs from Soviet ethnomusicologist Moisei Beregovsky, who wrote down hundreds of new Yiddish songs in the Soviet Union during WWII. These songs were written mostly by amateurs, Jewish soldiers in the Red Army, Jewish wives and mothers working on the home f...

From November 14 to December 3, 1963, a Soviet Jewish delegation came to the United States for a multi-city tour that took them to New York, Chicago, Cleveland, San Francisco and Los Angeles, with many side trips to historic sites and universities.

Yiddish — the language and culture — is part of the modern Jewish story, says chief curator David Mazower. And without it, "you don’t have the full story."

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Elizabeth Schwartz is a singer extraordinaire, recording artist, filmmaker—and the subject of a film documentary—podcast writer (of, among other things, the 2021 audio drama, Debs in Canton, about Eugene V. Debs, which won multiple awards for excellence in writing).

In his award-winning book, Prof. Sasha Senderovich mixes a rich, centuries-old body of Yiddish folklore with early 20th-century events to define a notoriously nebulous Jewish group

Rokhl’s Golden City: Young people get organized in Yiddishland

Rokhl’s Golden City: Tracing two stories of wartime heroism in Warsaw

The age of texting and tweeting has brought out the curmudgeon in me. National Poetry Month, celebrated in April, is a sort of antidote to all this.