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The first session of this year’s summer program theater class workshop met in an especially theatrical setting – the loft of New York’s acclaimed Circus Amok. Led by theater workshop instructors Jenny Romaine and Shane Baker, and special guest Itzik Gottesman, the students listened to ghost stories and “roasted marshmallows.”

Violinist/vocalist/composer Alicia Svigals and accordionist Lauren Brody will perform a program of Yiddish songs old and new and of euphoric klezmer fiddle music, in their first concert reunion since the days of their 1990's all-women band Mikveh.

This short item ran in Yedies in June 1964.

Profiles of four students in the 2013 Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture

Chava Rosenfarb, noted Yiddish writer and major Holocaust literary figure, discusses her life in Lodz before the Holocaust, her years in the Lodz Ghetto, in Auschwitz, in Bergen-Belsen, and her career as a Yiddish writer in Montreal.

A journal dedicated to the Yiddish language.

Join us to celebrate the life and work of Benjamin Harshav (1928-2015), eminent translator, poet, and scholar of Hebrew and Yiddish literature.

Shades of Red: The Yiddish Left-Wing Press in America, a YIVO exhibition. (2012)

As part of the first Yiddish New York festival, YIVO archivists present gems from YIVO’s rare book, sound, and manuscript collections.

This program marks the 120th anniversary of the birth of poet and playwright Peretz Markish, discussing his Yiddish writing, biography, and the political context surrounding the 1952 “Night of the Murdered Poets.”