Classic Kol Nidre
Classic American Kol Nidre Recordings Victor Talking Machine Co. plays the Kol Nidre As masses of Jewish immigrants poured into the United States in the early years of the twentieth century, a...
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Yiddish and Artificial “Intelligence”
Efnt di pod-bay tirn, HAL… Yiddish and Artificial “Intelligence” Fails BY DER VORTSMAN An article in a recent issue of Mother Jones predicts that Artificial Intelligence will replace human translators...
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Yiddishkayt Expedition 2018
Voyage to the Heart of Jewish Culture Explore the terrain of Yiddish culture, discover traces of the lost world described so vividly in the classic songs, and tune into the distant rhythms of Jewish...
View ArticleMonsa Monster
Monsa Monster brings you the treasures of Yiddish storytelling. The post Monsa Monster appeared first on Yiddishkayt.
View ArticleSongs of Work and Struggle
Top 10 Yiddish Songs of the Working Masses A playlist for the International Workers Day… and every day! The post Songs of Work and Struggle appeared first on Yiddishkayt.
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A Tempest in a Tshaynik
Monse…Mayse…Maynse… A Tempest in a Tshaynik? BY DER VORTSMAN [Der Vortsman, who wrote a monthly column for Yiddishkayt in its formative years, then retired only to take up temporary residence on the...
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New Year, Old Saw
New Year, Old Saw BY DER VORTSMAN The Vortsman, having migrated from Yiddishkayt to the SoCal Arbeter Ring (Workmen’s Circle) and then gone missing, is back. Two matters prompt the restoration. One’s...
View ArticleClassic Kol Nidre
Classic American Kol Nidre Recordings Victor Talking Machine Co. plays the Kol Nidre As masses of Jewish immigrants poured into the United States in the early years of the twentieth century, a...
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Yiddishkayt Expedition 2018
Voyage to the Heart of Jewish Culture Explore the terrain of Yiddish culture, discover traces of the lost world described so vividly in the classic songs, and tune into the distant rhythms of Jewish...
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August 12 and After
How We Remember Soviet Yiddish Culture BY ROB ADLER PECKERAR In August 1941, just months after the start of Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, leaders of the Soviet...
View ArticleCelebrate Yiddish Writers and Poets
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View ArticleBread and Roses — The Legacy of Rose Schneiderman
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JUXTAPOETRY Time and Rivers Flowing
Juxtapoetry Anna Margolin meets Langston HughesJune 2020In this edition of Juxtapoetry, we are juxtaposing poems by Anna Margolin and Langston Hughes, two writers whose careers were geographically and...
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JUXTAPOETRY Lost in Flight
Juxtapoetry Bertold Brecht meets Dunya MikhailJuly 2020In this edition of Juxtapoetry, two poets exiled in the United States (Bertolt Brecht, exiled from Germany during World War II, and Dunya Mikhail,...
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JUXTAPOETRY Refusing to Be Claimed
Juxtapoetry Ianka Kupala meets Naomi Shihab NyeJuly 2020In this Juxtapoetry, Belarusian poet Ianka Kupala and American Young People’s Poet Laureate Naomi Shihab Nye examine how we view the strangers in...
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JUXTAPOETRY Ray of Light
Juxtapoetry Mary Oliver meets Mordechai GebirtigAugust 2020In what sort of light do we see the world? Where does the light come from, and what do we do with it? In this Juxtapoetry, American poet Mary...
View ArticleLAYKA Lens October Comradeship
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JUXTAPOETRY School Daze
Juxtapoetry Avrom Reyzen meets Philip Levine meets Jacques PrévertAugust 2020Three poems, three didactic exercises in three classrooms – one, a small-town Jewish religious school, probably somewhere in...
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