New film captures the talent and devotion of musicians choosing Yiddish
'A subculture within a subculture': Director Ros Horin chats with the artists and highlights their inspiring performances
'A subculture within a subculture': Director Ros Horin chats with the artists and highlights their inspiring performances
Singer-songwriter Motty Ilowitz has never shied away from composing songs that don’t fit the Haredi mold
How Joseph Wulf’s Yiddish song ‘Sunbeams,’ composed at Auschwitz, ended up in Jonathan Glazer’s ‘Zone of Interest’
The narrator of the song contrasts the miracle of the oil with the suffering of the Jews under the Russian Czar
One great hope expressed by many Jews during the Holocaust was the dream of returning to their ancient homeland
Among the events: the screening of a classic film about two disabled lovers and a lecture about Palestinian Yiddish
The award, in memory of the inspirational singer and activist Adrienne Cooper, will be presented at the Yiddish New York Festival.
After the war, partisan fighter Shmerke Kaczerginski visited displaced persons camps and recorded the songs that survivors shared with him.
די הריגה פֿון יעקבֿ ישׂראל דע־האַן ווערט פֿאַררעכנט פֿאַרן ערשטן פּאָליטישן מאָרד אין ארץ־ישׂראל