Search results

Nathaniel Deutsch will discuss The Digital Minhag Project, an interactive website built around a Yiddish-English version of Sh. An-ski's ethnographic questionnaire, that seeks to crowd-source contemporary Jewish customs, beginning with those still practiced by Hasidic communities.

Neil W. Levin continues his exploration of Yiddish opera under the auspices of his position as Anne E. Leibowitz Visiting Professor-in-Residence in Music.

Neil W. Levin continues his exploration of Yiddish opera under the auspices of his position as Anne E. Leibowitz Visiting Professor-in-Residence in Music.

Neil W. Levin continues his exploration of Yiddish opera under the auspices of his position as Anne E. Leibowitz Visiting Professor-in-Residence in Music.

YIVO’s music collections contain sheet music, music manuscripts, and the papers of musicians and composers.

Special resources in the YIVO Library for the study of the Holocaust, Yiddish, and other subjects.

In 2013, Isaac Bleaman launched Leyenzal (Reading Room), a website that commissions original biweekly Yiddish-language video lectures about Yiddish literature, which can be downloaded for free along with the texts being discussed.

Bleaman is a first-year doctoral student in the Department of Linguistics at New York University, with interests in sociolinguistic variation, language contact, and language shift. He earned an MSt in Yiddish Studies at Oxford, and a BA in Linguistics and Comparative Literature at Stanford. Earlier this year, he was profiled in “36 Under 36: Three Dozen Millenials And Gen-Xers Reinventing The Jewish Community” in The Jewish Week.

He is interviewed here by Yedies Editor Roberta Newman.

Klezmer-rock band Golem has been reinterpreting Yiddish and East European Jewish music for the 21st century since 2000. YIVO Public Program Director Helena Gindi spoke with founder and lead singer of the band, Annette Ezekiel Kogan, about Golem’s latest album, Tanz, which was released on May 13 on the Mexican label Discos Corason.

Golem’s CD release party for Tanz will be held at Joe’s Pub on May 29, 2014.

Listen to clips from Tanz on Golem’s website.

by ROBERTA NEWMAN In April 1946, Yedies reported on the publication of Isaac Rivkind’s Der kamf kegn azartshpiln bay Yidn (The fight against gambling in Jewish literature). The Yiddish version of the article is more detailed, providing a list of topics covered by the book: Old Yiddish gambling songs Gambling and Yiddish folksongs Modern ...

The YIVO Archives receives new items and collections on a weekly basis. These include donations of organizational records, manuscripts, printed materials, family history materials, photographs, sound recordings, artworks, and films related to the many topics covered by YIVO's archives and library.

Yedies will begin reporting on these acquisitions on a monthly basis. This week, we feature a couple of highlights from the most recent donations.

(Special thanks to YIVO Associate Archivist Leo Greenbaum for providing the information for this report.)