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Check your answers below and let us know how you did on social media! #yiddishbeasts 1. You can find this animal in savannas a) Der helfand – elephant b) Der shtekhler – hedgehog c) Di fledermoyz – bat d) Di zhabe – frog 2. You can find this animal in the mountains a) Di ku – cow b) Der ...

Congratulations! You’re a Yiddish master! #yiddishbodyparts 1. Skull a) Oygn – eyes b) Sharbn – skull c) Ruknbeyn – spine d) Tson – tooth 2. Shoulder a) Aksl – shoulder b) Kinbeyn – jawbone c) Nozlekher – nostrils d) Pyate – heel 3. Ribs a) Kni – knee b) Gombe – chin c) Pakhve – armpit d) Ripn – ribs 4. Hand a) Hant – hand b) Fusfinger – ...

Bravo! Do you hear the applause? You’re a star! #ohmama 1. Which of these isn’t a play title? a) A Working Girl’s Wrongs b) The Coquettish Ladies c) The Unfaithful Wife d)Three Brides for Yankl 2. Where did the first Yiddish performance take place? a) In a theater b) In a wine garden c) In a cellar d) In a firehall 3. ...

This course will survey the development of Jewish humor as a cultural phenomenon during the 19th and 20th centuries, focusing mainly on the history of American Jewish comedic output, but also delving into Jewish material from Eastern Europe, the USSR, and Israel.

Ronald Robboy will dive into Goldfaden’s career and the significance of the music and story of Shulamis and some of his other musical numbers.

Join YIVO Executive Director and CEO Jonathan Brent in conversation with David Weisberg, CEO of the Federation for Jewish Philanthropy, to learn about the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections project, as well as other important activities of YIVO today.

Close readings of selected tracks by the Barton Brothers, Mickey Katz, and Allan Sherman will focus on their language, their music, their delivery, and what made them so influential and so very funny.

The Educational Program on Yiddish Culture (EPYC), a project of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, is an educational curriculum on the 1,000-year history and Yiddish culture of Jews in Eastern Europe. EPYC is a 'portable library' that contains a diverse array of educational resources culled from the world-renowned YIVO archives ...

Join us for the premiere performance of 10 Children’s Songs of Y. L. Peretz (1921) by composer Moses Milner, performed by singer Lucy Fitz Gibbon with pianist Ryan MacEvoy McCullough.

This talk will explore how German scholar Franz Beranek presented himself to Jewish colleagues and how Jewish colleagues sought to respond to him as a person and to his scholarship in the aftermath of the Holocaust.