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A live recording of a lecture on Yiddish literature delivered at YIVO’s 42nd Annual Conference in 1968.

From children’s storybooks to magazines, from school textbooks to limericks, come and see the artifacts of the life kids lived in Yiddish before World War II. (2017)

The famous Yiddish-English English-Yiddish dictionary and is significance.

This concert explores the legacy of composer Lazare Saminsky (1882-1959), whose oeuvre represents a broad cross section of Jewish music ranging from sacred to secular. His songs set texts in Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, and more, and his music takes its inspiration from all around the Jewish world. This program is located in Temple Emanu-El, 5th Avenue at 65th Street, NYC.

Through a presentation of his early fiction and criticism published in Warsaw journals 1925-1933, this lecture will delineate the beginnings of Yitskhok Bashevis as a Yiddish storyteller.

YIVO and the League for Yiddish cordially invite you to the annual all-Yiddish program in Memory of Dr. Mordkhe and Charne Schaechter.

In Yiddish, one colorful way Jews can greet each other is with the saying, “?װאָס מאַכט אַ ייִד” (vos makht a yid?). Literally this means, “what does a Jew make?” Idiomatically it means something like, “what’s doing man?”

In Have I Got a Story for You: More Than a Century of Fiction from the Forward, 42 Yiddish-language stories are translated for the first time. Ezra Glinter, Dara Horn, and the translators read from the stories, give us a taste of the Yiddish originals, and engage in a discussion of the work.

This concert series is devoted to rarely heard masterworks from the Sidney Krum Jewish Music and Yiddish Theater Memorial Collections at YIVO, performed by gifted young artists from the Juilliard School, the Manhattan School of Music and other premier conservatories in the metropolitan New York area.

This talk considers the role of international travel, correspondence, touring, and artistic exchange in the Vilna Troupe's extraordinary rise to success.