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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 570

Yiddish

Chaim Grade’s 'Sons and Daughters' was originally serialized in the 1960s and '70s, in New York–based Yiddish newspapers. (YIVO; Alfred. A. Knopf via JTA)
April 7, 2025, 1:16 am
How Yiddish writer Chaim Grade’s last novel was rescued and wrestled into print
The editors discuss how a previously lost decades-old manuscript was found and pieced together. It’s being called ‘probably the last great Yiddish novel’
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Leaders of the New York-based YIVO open crates of salvaged YIVO treasures from Europe, photographed in New Jersey, 1947. (Courtesy of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research)
March 21, 2025, 4:17 pm
Dirty jokes and sacred texts: YIVO marks 100 years of preserving Yiddish culture
Artifacts from 1,000 years of Ashkenazi Jewish life including literary transcripts, Herzl’s diary, everyday notes and children’s scrawls connect prewar Jews with generations to come
By Cathryn J. Prince
Zalman Mlotek holds forth at Yung Yiddish, on February 4, 2024. (Gavriel Fiske/Times of Israel)
February 8, 2024, 8:29 am
In Tel Aviv, a maestro revels in the ‘holy work’ of preserving Yiddish culture
Yung Yiddish hosts conductor Zalmen Mlotek, the man behind the acclaimed mamaloshen stage version of ‘Fiddler on the Roof,’ for an evening of song and camaraderie
By Gavriel Fiske
Mikhl Yashinsky (L) and Joshua Horowitz (R) in 'The Gospel According to Chaim,' at the New Yiddish Repertory Theater in New York, December 2023. (Credit: Qixin Zhang)
December 28, 2023, 10:47 pm
NYC gets first original American Yiddish drama in 70 years
New Yiddish Rep stages ‘The Gospel According to Chaim,’ which recounts a Galician Jew’s efforts to shop around the Yiddish word of Christ
By ToI Staff
Sephardic, Ashkenazi, and Mizrahi men in Jerusalem, c. 1900. (YIVO Institute for Jewish Research via JTA)
September 9, 2023, 10:57 am
NYC exhibit shows Israeli Hebrew didn’t kill Yiddish, it gave it a new nest to live in
‘Palestinian Yiddish: A Look at Yiddish in the Land of Israel Before 1948,’ opens this week, shows how the old language survived in the new Israel – sometimes hiding in plain sight
By Ghil‘ad Zuckermann
Kevin Janssens (left) and Robbie Cleiren as Noah and Eli Wolfson in the Netflix thriller 'Rough Diamonds.' (Netflix)
April 21, 2023, 5:14 am
‘Godfather’ meets ‘Shtisel’: New Netflix thriller delves into Haredi diamond dealers
‘Rough Diamonds,’ an Israeli-Belgian co-production, tells a tale of an Antwerp Hasidic family struggling to keep its business alive as it is drawn deeper into the underworld
By Amy Spiro
Polish Yiddish singer-songwriter Maria Ka in concert. (Iwona Wojdowska)
April 12, 2023, 3:52 am
After unmuting her hidden Jewish roots, Polish singer amplifies them in Yiddish punk
On a new album dropping on April 20 to mark the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Maria Ka takes cues from electronica for songs inspired by feminism and anti-establishmentarianism
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Chaim Grade and his wife Inna Hecker Grade, shown in the United States in 1978. The two met in Moscow in 1945. (YIVO Institute for Jewish Research via JTA)
February 26, 2023, 2:17 am
Writer Chaim Grade’s archive digitized: A Yiddish treasure with a dramatic backstory
YIVO Institute and National Library of Israel make renowned author’s papers available online after they were locked away by his widow for decades, inaccessible to researchers
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
The Jewish cemetery in Worms, Germany, January 25, 2023. (Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images via JTA)
February 4, 2023, 2:40 pm
Germany celebrates UNESCO listing for birthplaces of Yiddish, Ashkenazi culture
Sites recognized include the oldest known in-situ Jewish burial ground in Europe; German president: Jewish history in Germany, both good and bad, goes far beyond Holocaust
By David I. Klein
Mikhl Yashinsky, right, in a scene from 'The Sorceress,' by New York's The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene. (Courtesy)
January 18, 2023, 2:58 am
This 30-something New Yorker doesn’t need a crystal ball to see a Yiddish revival
Performer and educator Mikhl Yashinsky is bringing the ‘always dying’ language out of the yeshiva and back into the limelight
By Jon Kalish
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Ashkenazium students in class.
September 19, 2022, 7:47 pm
An exhilarating dive into 1000 years of European Jewry in Budapest’s Ashkenazium
Intense, intellectual, immersive Jewish studies: Why the Ashkenazium is an increasingly attractive destination for an MA
By Aviva Blumstein
Illustrative: A man walks by school bus with Yiddish signage in Borough Park, Brooklyn, New York City, January 1, 2014. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
September 11, 2022, 3:21 pm
New York Times publishes Hasidic school investigation in Yiddish, too
Likely the 1st time newspaper has published in Yiddish; article addresses major deficiencies in Hasidic education system that leave students unprepared for life in the US
By Ash Obel
The major characters from the Nickelodeon series 'SpongeBob Square Pants.' (Fair use)
June 14, 2022, 7:28 pm
SpongeBob SquarePants theme song gets Yiddish treatment
Eddy Portnoy, academic adviser and director of exhibitions at the YIVO Institute, gives beloved animated kid show’s theme a new Jewish spin
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Comedian Pete Davidson attends the premiere of 'Big Time Adolescence' at Metrograph, on March 5, 2020, in New York. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
April 30, 2022, 8:30 am
Pete Davidson to star in autobiographical comedy with Yiddish title
‘Bupkis,’ which will air on NBC’s Peacock streaming service, will reportedly reflect comedian’s self-deprecating sense of humor
By Andrew Lapin
A picture shows screens displaying a live televised debate between incumbent French President Emmanuel Macron (L) and far-right candidate Marine Le Pen (R), broadcasted on French TV channels TF1 and France 2, in a viewing room at the studios hosting the debate in Saint-Denis, north of Paris. (Ludovic Marin/AFP)
April 22, 2022, 2:24 pm
France’s Macron appears to use Yiddish in debate with Le Pen
Incumbent president seem to says ‘oy, oy, oy’ while arguing with far-right rival about national debt, but some suggest he actually used similar sounding French term ‘aïe’
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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