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אַידיש ליד יעדען טאָג: ״אַיך ליב, אַיך ליב, אַיך ליב אַױפֿגעפֿירט פֿון לודמילאַ שפּיראַ

Yiddish Song of the Day, "I do! I do! I do!" performed by Ludmila Shapiro #Yiddish #YiddishSongoftheDay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfq8GdE2gTQ

finally finished my latest blog post which I've been working on for the last few weeks after I got interested in E 2nd Street and its klezmer connection.

I definitely went from "wow this is neat" to "WTF am I doing" over the past month, but I may as well document it🤪
https://alte.klezmor.im/2026/08/01/east-2nd-street-as-a-hub-of-new-york-klezmer/

#LowerEastSide #MusicHistory #JewishMusic #klezmer #Yiddish #East2ndStreet

finally finished my latest blog post which I've been working on for the last few weeks after I got interested in E 2nd Street and its klezmer connection.

I definitely went from "wow this is neat" to "WTF am I doing" over the past month, but I may as well document it🤪
https://alte.klezmor.im/2026/08/01/east-2nd-street-as-a-hub-of-new-york-klezmer/

#LowerEastSide #MusicHistory #JewishMusic #klezmer #Yiddish #East2ndStreet

Ashkenazi Jews

Author’s Note: This post has mentions of Nazis, the Holocaust, & Nazi Germany. We completely understand if you wish to skip over this post. We’ll catch you in the next one!

Also known as Ashkenazic Jews, Ashkenazis, or Ashkenazim.

This is a form of distinct ethnic subdivision of the Jewish Diaspora. Emerging from the Jewish communities that consolidated during the 10th century in the Rhineland (Western Germany) & northern France. They migrated there from centers such as the Italian peninsula & the Southern Levant. This includes present-day Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, & Jordan.

After numerous massacres of Jews during the Crusades (11th-13th centuries), they began a gradual eastward migration due to mounting restrictions within the Holy Roman Empire & the favorable policies of Casimir the Great & others.

This diaspora ramped up after the persecution during the Black Death of the 14th century. The bulk of the Ashkenazi Jews had migrated to the Kingdom of Poland (which includes modern-day Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, & parts of Russia). This area became the main center of Ashkenazi Jewry until the Holocaust.

Ashkenazim adapted their traditions, rites, & customs to Europe. They traditionally followed the German rite synagogue ritual & until the Holocaust primarily spoke Yiddish, an offshoot of Middle High German written in a variety of the Hebrew script, with significant Hebrew, Aramaic, & Slavic influences.

The Yiddish language progressively declined in prestige, in favor of national languages & Hebrew, being stigmatized by assimilationists & later also Zionists. Though it was spoken by over 11 million people worldwide before the Holocaust. The Yiddishist movement, which sought to preserve & revive the language, faded through the 20th century. Including Duolingo adding Yiddish as a language.

As a proportion of the world Jewish population, Ashkenazim were estimated to be 3% in the 11th century, rising to 92% in 1930, near the population’s peak. The Ashkenazi population was significantly diminished by the Holocaust carried out by Nazi Germany during WWII, which killed around 6 million Jews. Before WWII, the estimated worldwide Jewish population was 15.3-16.7 million, with 92% being Ashkenazi. As of 2023, the population of Ashkenazim was estimated to be around 10-13 million out of 15.8 million total Jews.

The name Ashkenazi comes from the biblical figure of Ashkenaz. He’s the 1st son of Gomer, grandson of Japhet, great-grandson of Noah, & a Japhetic patriarch in the Table of Nations. The name for Gomer has often been linked to the Cimmerians.

The Biblical Ashkenazis are usually derived from Assyrian Askuza, a people who expelled the Cimmerians from the Armenian area of the Upper Euphrates. The name Askuza is identified with the Scythians.

In Jeremiah 51:27, Ashkenaz figures as 1 of 3 kingdoms in the far north, the others being Minni (or Mannaea), an ancient kingdom that flourished in northwestern Iran, & Arrat (corresponding to Urartu), called on by God to resist Babylon.

Ashkenaz is linked to Scandza/Scanzia (usually identified with Scandinavia), viewed as the cradle of Germanic tribes, in the 6th-century gloss to the Historia Ecclesiastica of Eusebius. In the 10th century, in the History of Armenia of Yovhannes Drasxanakertci, Ashkenaz was associated with Armenia.

As it was occasionally in Jewish usage, where its denotation extended at times to Adiabene, Khazaria, Chimea, & areas to the east. They’re also identified with the Slavim or Slavs. In keeping with the custom of designating areas of Jewish settlement with biblical names, Spain was called Sefarad (Obadiah 20), France was called Tsarefat (I Kings 17:9), & Bohemia was called the Land of Canaan.

Given the close links between the Jewish communities of France & Germany following the Carolingian unification, the term Ashkenazi came to refer to the Jews of both medieval Germany & France.

In later times, the word Ashkenaz is used to designate southern & western Germany, the ritual of which sections differs somewhat from that of eastern Germany & Poland. Thus, the prayer book of Isaiah Horowitz (a prominent rabbi & mystic), & many others, give the piyyutim (a Jewish liturgical poem), according to the Minhag of Ashkenaz & Poland. A Minhag is an accepted tradition or group of traditions in Judaism.

In a religious sense, an Ashkenazi Jew is any Jew whose family tradition & synagogue ritual follow Ashkenazi practices (German rite). Until the Ashkenazi community 1st began to develop in the Early Middle Ages, the centers of Jewish religious authority were in the Islamic world, at Baghdad & Islamic Spain. German Ashkenaz was so geographically distant that it developed a minhag of its own.

The counterpart of Ashkenazi is Sephardic. Since most non-Ashkenazi Orthodox Jews follow Sephardic rabbinical authorities, whether or not they’re ethnically Sephardic. By tradition, a Sephardic or Mizrahi (a.k.a. Oriental Jews; Jews who lived in the Muslim world) who married into an Orthodox or Haredi (a.k.a. ultra-Orthodox) Ashkenazi Jewish family raises her kids to be Ashkenazi Jews.

On the other hand, an Ashkenazi woman who married a Sephardi or Mizrahi is expected to take on Sephardic practices & the kids will “inherit” a Sephardic identity. Though in practice, many families do compromise. A “convert” usually follows the practice of the rabbinical court (beth din) that converted them.

Culturally, an Ashkenazi Jew can be identified by the concept of Yiddishkeit, which means “Jewishness” in the Yiddish language. Before the Haskalah (a.k.a. the Jewish Enlightenment) & the emancipation of Jews in Europe, this meant the study of the Torah & the Talmud for men, & communal life governed by the observance of Jewish Law for men & women.

From the Rhineland to Riga (the largest city in Latvia) to Romania, most Jews prayed in liturgical Ashkenazi Hebrew, & spoke Yiddish in their secular (worldly) lives. But with modernization, Yiddishkeit now includes not just Orthodoxy & Hasidism, but a broader range of movements, ideologies, practices, & traditions in which Ashkenazi have participated & somehow kept a sense of Jewishness. Although pockets of Jews still speak Yiddish, Yiddishkeit can be identified in manners of speech, styles of humor, & in patterns of association.

As Ashkenazi Jews moved away from Europe, mostly in the form of aliyah to Israel. Or immigration to North America, South Africa, Europe (particularly France), & Latin America, the geographic isolation has given way to mixing with other cultures, & with non-Ashkenazi Jews who, similarly, are no longer isolated in distinct geographic locales.

Hebrew has replaced Yiddish as the primary Jewish language for many Ashkenazi Jews. Although many Hasidic & Hareidi groups still use Yiddish in daily life. Aliyah is the immigration of Jews from the diaspora to, historically, the geographic Land of Israel or the Palestine region, where the State of Israel was established.

France’s blended Jewish community is typical of the cultural recombination that’s going on among Jews throughout the world. Although France expelled its original Jewish population in the Middle Ages, by the time of the French Revolution, there were 2 distinct Jewish populations.

One consisted of Sephardic Jews, originally refugees from the Inquisition (which no one expects! Sorry, we’re Monty Python fans here.) & concentrated in the southwest. While the other community was Ashkenazi, concentrated in formerly German Alsace, & mainly speaking a German dialect similar to Yiddish.

The 3rd community of Provencal Jews living in Comtat Venaissin was technically outside France, & was later absorbed into the Sephardim. Comtat Venaissin (called Comtat, for short) was a part of the Papal States from 1274 to 1791.

But after emancipation, a sense of a unified French Jewry emerged, especially when France was wracked by the Dreyfus Affair in the 1890s. (We’ll be doing a post about the Dreyfus Affair.) In the 1920s & 30s, Ashkenazi Jews from Europe arrived in large numbers as refugees from antisemitism, the Russian Revolution, & the economic turmoil of the Great Depression.

By the 1930s, Paris had a vibrant Yiddish culture, & many Jews were involved in diverse political movements. After the Vichy years & the Holocaust, the French Jewish population was augmented once again, 1st by Ashkenazi refugees from Central Europe, & later by Sephardi immigrants & refugees from North Africa, many of them francophone. Francophone refers to people/organizations who use French (language) regularly.

Ashkenazi Jews didn’t transmit their traditions or achievements by text. Instead, these traditions were passed down orally from one generation to the next. The desire to maintain pre-Holocaust traditions relating to Ashkenazi culture has often been met with criticism by Jews in Eastern Europe.

In an ethnic sense, an Ashkenazi Jew is a descendant of the Jews who settled in the Central European region of “Ashkenaz.” For roughly 1,000 years, the Ashkenazim were a reproductively isolated population in Europe.

Despite living in many countries, with little inflow or outflow of countries from migration, conversion, or intermarriage with other groups, including other Jews. Since the mid-20th century, many Ashkenazi Jews have intermarried, both with members of other Jewish communities & non-Jews.

Religious persecution of the Jews in Western & Central Europe led to a significant migration of the Ashkenazi Jews into Eastern Europe. This resulted in a major cultural divide between Western/Central & Eastern Ashkenazi communities. In particular, this was reflected in the division of Yiddish into Western & Eastern Yiddish dialects. As well as in other cultural distinctions: traditions, food, dress, etc.

Initially, the Jews of Eastern Europe enjoyed relative freedom in terms of movement, being invited by the kings of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Over time, the situation was reversed. By the 19th century, the Jews in the West had gradually been integrated into the general society.

While the Eastern Ashkenazi maintained their strict Jewish traditions & were mostly confined to ghettos, especially in the Pale of Settlement of the Russian Empire, which incorporated a considerable amount of land where the Eastern Ashkenazi lived: Poland & Lithuania.

Well-known differences in practices include:

• Observance of Passover (Pesach)
  • Ashkenazi Jews traditionally refrain from eating legumes, grain, millet, & rice. Quinoa has become accepted as a food grain in North American communities. Sephardi Jews typically don’t prohibit these foods.
• Notwithstanding stricter requirements for the ACTUAL slaughter, Sephardi Jews permit the rear portions of an animal after proper Halakhic removal of the sciatic nerve. While many Ashkenazi Jews don’t.
• Ashkenazi Jews often name newborns after deceased family members, not after living relatives. Sephardi Jews often name their kids after their grandparents, even if those grandparents are still living. An exception to this is among Dutch Jews, where Ashkenazi for centuries used naming conventions otherwise attributed exclusively to Sephardim, such as Chuts. Chuts is the name given to Jews who immigrated to London from the Netherlands in the 1850s-1860s.
• Ashkenazi tefillins are wound toward the body, not away from it. Ashkenazim put on the tefillin while standing up. Other Jews generally do so while sitting down. A tefillin(s) is/are sets of small black leather boxes with leather straps having scrolls of parchment written with verses of the Torah inside.
• The prayer shawl (tallit/tallis) is worn by all Ashkenazi men AFTER marriage. Except for Western European Ashkenazi men who wear it from the bar mitzvah. In Sephardi or Mizrahi Judaism, the prayer shawl is commonly worn from early childhood.

The term Ashkenazi also refers to the Nusach Ashkenaz, the liturgical tradition used by Ashkenazi Jews in their siddur (prayer book). A nusach is defined by a liturgical tradition’s choice of prayers, the text of prayers & melodies used in the singing of prayers. 2 other major forms of nusach among Ashkenazi Jews are Nusach Sefard (not to be confused with the Sephardic ritual), which is the general Polish Hasidic nusach, and Nusach Ari, used by those in Chabad.

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#JimCrow #ScottsboroBoys #Yiddish #history

"A Yiddish theater troupe condemned U.S. racism — then the Nazis came

The 1935 Yiddish play ‘Mississippi,’ inspired by the Scottsboro Boys, is available to English readers for the first time.

In 1935, the experimental theater group Yung Teatr invited audiences in Warsaw to a new play that was virtually all in Yiddish but wasn’t about Europe or Jews. It was a modified retelling of the plight of the Scottsboro Boys, nine Black teenagers who were falsely accused of raping two white women in Tennessee in 1931. While the case was being retried in the United States for the second time, the three-act play Mississippi exposed Polish Jews to the injustice."

https://forward.com/culture/theater/842006/a-yiddish-theater-troupe-condemned-u-s-racism-then-the-nazis-came/

#JimCrow #ScottsboroBoys #Yiddish #history

"A Yiddish theater troupe condemned U.S. racism — then the Nazis came

The 1935 Yiddish play ‘Mississippi,’ inspired by the Scottsboro Boys, is available to English readers for the first time.

In 1935, the experimental theater group Yung Teatr invited audiences in Warsaw to a new play that was virtually all in Yiddish but wasn’t about Europe or Jews. It was a modified retelling of the plight of the Scottsboro Boys, nine Black teenagers who were falsely accused of raping two white women in Tennessee in 1931. While the case was being retried in the United States for the second time, the three-act play Mississippi exposed Polish Jews to the injustice."

https://forward.com/culture/theater/842006/a-yiddish-theater-troupe-condemned-u-s-racism-then-the-nazis-came/

אַידיש ליד יעדען טאָג: ״יוסף מוקיר שבתּ״ אַױפֿגעפֿירט פֿון אַברהם פֿריד

Yiddish Song of the Day: "Yosef Mokir Shabbos" by Yom Tov Ehrlich, performed by Avraham Fried #Yiddish #YiddishSongoftheDay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVn_eDzd5Rs

אַידיש ליד יעדען טאָג: ״מײַן טפּקיד״ אַױפֿגעפֿירט פֿון הערשי בלײַך

Yiddish Song of the Day: "Mein Tafkid" performed by Hershy Bleich #Yiddish #YiddishSongoftheDay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni7e-5Q1J0c

אַידיש ליד יעדען טאָג: ״װעלאָסיפּיד ניגן״ אַױפֿגעפֿירט פֿון אַיזאַבעל פֿרײַ

Yiddish Song of the Day: "Bicycle Melody" performed by Isabel Frey #Yiddish #YiddishSongoftheDay #Klezmer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi1wz7sOKUE

"For more than two decades, #PJLibrary has mailed free #Jewish #childrensbooks to families around the world. Today, it distributes roughly 670,000 #books monthly in more than 40 countries. According to #AlisaKoyrakh, the organization’s director of books, those stories have historically reflected a familiar slice of Jewish life.

“There are just a lot of #Ashkenormative #stories out there—a lot of stories about #Yiddish, the #LowerEastSide and immigration from Eastern #Europe,” #Koyrakh said. “Those are all really important stories. But we saw gaps. It was kind of obvious.”

The #Sephardic Stories Initiative intends to fill those gaps, bringing together Sephardic and #Mizrahi #writers for a year of workshops, editorial mentorship and critique from their peers."

https://forward.com/culture/841487/pj-library-sephardic-stories-initiative/

"For more than two decades, #PJLibrary has mailed free #Jewish #childrensbooks to families around the world. Today, it distributes roughly 670,000 #books monthly in more than 40 countries. According to #AlisaKoyrakh, the organization’s director of books, those stories have historically reflected a familiar slice of Jewish life.

“There are just a lot of #Ashkenormative #stories out there—a lot of stories about #Yiddish, the #LowerEastSide and immigration from Eastern #Europe,” #Koyrakh said. “Those are all really important stories. But we saw gaps. It was kind of obvious.”

The #Sephardic Stories Initiative intends to fill those gaps, bringing together Sephardic and #Mizrahi #writers for a year of workshops, editorial mentorship and critique from their peers."

https://forward.com/culture/841487/pj-library-sephardic-stories-initiative/

"As #StevenPressman makes clear in his new #documentary #film, Dust Bowls and #Jewish Souls: Another Side of #WoodyGuthrie, there was another side to #Guthrie and his #songs. As his son, #ArloGuthrie, explains in the film: “My father studied #Judaism and he knew something about it. He never exchanged his faith for something else; he added to his faith. And that something else he added … was a Jewish identity. He understood what that meant traditionally, historically, culturally. And he knew more about Judaism than my zeyde. And so, my bubbe was thrilled.”

It just so happens that Arlo’s bubbe — his grandmother — was acclaimed #Yiddish #poet and #lyricist #AlizaGreenblatt. When Guthrie married Aliza’s daughter, #MarjorieMazia (née #Greenblatt), the two chose to raise their children in #ConeyIsland..."

https://forward.com/culture/841190/our-greatest-folksinger-wrote-about-america-dust-bowl-refugees-and-jewish-identity/

"As #StevenPressman makes clear in his new #documentary #film, Dust Bowls and #Jewish Souls: Another Side of #WoodyGuthrie, there was another side to #Guthrie and his #songs. As his son, #ArloGuthrie, explains in the film: “My father studied #Judaism and he knew something about it. He never exchanged his faith for something else; he added to his faith. And that something else he added … was a Jewish identity. He understood what that meant traditionally, historically, culturally. And he knew more about Judaism than my zeyde. And so, my bubbe was thrilled.”

It just so happens that Arlo’s bubbe — his grandmother — was acclaimed #Yiddish #poet and #lyricist #AlizaGreenblatt. When Guthrie married Aliza’s daughter, #MarjorieMazia (née #Greenblatt), the two chose to raise their children in #ConeyIsland..."

https://forward.com/culture/841190/our-greatest-folksinger-wrote-about-america-dust-bowl-refugees-and-jewish-identity/

Lovely, I discovered that in one of my moves I lost some pages of the sheet music for Ver Hot Aza Meydele and I had to send an email to the UPenn Jewish Music Archive and beg for another copy 😞
#Yiddish #Music

Lovely, I discovered that in one of my moves I lost some pages of the sheet music for Ver Hot Aza Meydele and I had to send an email to the UPenn Jewish Music Archive and beg for another copy 😞
#Yiddish #Music

first concert in a lil while at the Peretz Centre here in Vancouver. Come see Levyosn August 29, 2026, 7:00 p.m. an eclectic Yiddish folk & strings ensemble from Boston.😊I saw them in Montreal this spring and they're quite talented.
https://www.peretz-centre.org/event-details-registration/levyosn-old-new-and-reimagined-yiddish-song

#Yiddish #Vancouver #FolkMusic #JewishMusic

first concert in a lil while at the Peretz Centre here in Vancouver. Come see Levyosn August 29, 2026, 7:00 p.m. an eclectic Yiddish folk & strings ensemble from Boston.😊I saw them in Montreal this spring and they're quite talented.
https://www.peretz-centre.org/event-details-registration/levyosn-old-new-and-reimagined-yiddish-song

#Yiddish #Vancouver #FolkMusic #JewishMusic

אַידיש ליד יעדען טאָג: ״װאַרף״ אַױפֿגעפֿירט פֿון בערי װעבער אַון הערשי װײַנבערגער

Yiddish Song of the Day: "Warf" performed by Beri Weber and Hersh Weinberger #Yiddish #YiddishSongoftheDay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdip28rKxX0

Still poking around in YIVO's new United Hebrew Trades digital collection and found this greeting from the Theatrical Musical Club in the 40th anniversary journal of the UHT (1928). interesting that it comes the page after a much more basic greeting page from AFM local 802, which they were theoretically a part of.

#Yiddish #MusicUnion #MusicHistory #NewYorkHistory

Still poking around in YIVO's new United Hebrew Trades digital collection and found this greeting from the Theatrical Musical Club in the 40th anniversary journal of the UHT (1928). interesting that it comes the page after a much more basic greeting page from AFM local 802, which they were theoretically a part of.

#Yiddish #MusicUnion #MusicHistory #NewYorkHistory

אַידיש ליד יעדען טאָג: ״דער פֿײַער עסקײַפּ״ אַױפֿגעפֿירט פֿון דשײַן פּעפּלער

Yiddish Song of the Day: "The Fire Escape" performed by Jane Peppler #Yiddish #YiddishSongoftheDay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpXJWfp_bLQ

אַידיש ליד יעדען טאָג: ״דער פֿײַער עסקײַפּ״ אַױפֿגעפֿירט פֿון דשײַן פּעפּלער

Yiddish Song of the Day: "The Fire Escape" performed by Jane Peppler #Yiddish #YiddishSongoftheDay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpXJWfp_bLQ

אַידיש ליד יעדען טאָג: ״עס װילט זיך מיר זעהן״ אַפֿגעפֿירט פֿון די קלעזמאַטיקס

Yiddish Song of the Day: "Es Wilt Zikh Mir Zehn" performed by The Klezmatics #Yiddish #YiddishSongoftheDay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS8uKxDHFmI

אַידיש ליד יעדען טאָג: ״צוגרײַטען אַױף שבתּ אַױפֿגעפֿירט פֿון אַברהם פֿריד

Yiddish Song of the Day: "Getting Ready For Shabbos" by Yom Tov Ehrlich, performed by Avraham Fried #Yiddish #YiddishSongoftheDay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSomYbxioDQ

Rafael Goldwaser avait enregistré la version yiddish de "Di veshin" (La blanchisseuse), nouvelle d'Isaac Bashevis Singer (dans Au tribunal de mon père) pour Radio Yiddish Pour Tous.
(lecture en français par Charles Goldszlagier)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-XV_1IH7kU

#yiddish

זאָל ער האָבן אַ ליכטיקן גן-עדן.
#יידיש #ארגענטינע
#yiddish

װילט איר לערנען זיך #יידיש? קום דאָ, צו מײַן טשעט אויף #XMPP!

צי רעדט איר יידיש אין דערהיים? ברוך הבא! קום, און הילף אונדז לערנען זיך דיין מאמע־לשון!

xmpp:[email protected]t?join

#yiddish #languagelearning

װילט איר לערנען זיך #יידיש? קום דאָ, צו מײַן טשעט אויף #XMPP!

צי רעדט איר יידיש אין דערהיים? ברוך הבא! קום, און הילף אונדז לערנען זיך דיין מאמע־לשון!

xmpp:[email protected]t?join

#yiddish #languagelearning

"One of the biggest traumas that people had in the #Bershad #ghetto was that no one would notice the death,” #Shternshis told the #Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “So the #song that did talk about the lack of empathy, but also talked about the funeral, was actually a fantasy that all these things would happen — a prayer, a grave.”

This is Shternshis’ second “#Yiddish Glory” #album aiming to resurrect #music from witnesses of the #Holocaust in the #SovietUnion. Her first album in 2018, titled “#YiddishGlory: The Lost #Songs of #WorldWarII,” was nominated for a #Grammy.

That project was the first she reaped from the discovery of #Beregovsky’s documents, and it focused largely on songs collected from #Russian soldiers who fought against the #Nazis. The “Silenced Songs” album centers almost entirely on #Jews who lived in the #ghettos and #concentrationcamps of #Ukraine’s #Vinnytsia region, which was occupied by #Romania and #Nazi #Germany from 1941 to 1944."

https://www.jta.org/2026/07/17/culture/lost-holocaust-music-nearly-erased-by-stalin-goes-on-tour-in-asia

"One of the biggest traumas that people had in the #Bershad #ghetto was that no one would notice the death,” #Shternshis told the #Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “So the #song that did talk about the lack of empathy, but also talked about the funeral, was actually a fantasy that all these things would happen — a prayer, a grave.”

This is Shternshis’ second “#Yiddish Glory” #album aiming to resurrect #music from witnesses of the #Holocaust in the #SovietUnion. Her first album in 2018, titled “#YiddishGlory: The Lost #Songs of #WorldWarII,” was nominated for a #Grammy.

That project was the first she reaped from the discovery of #Beregovsky’s documents, and it focused largely on songs collected from #Russian soldiers who fought against the #Nazis. The “Silenced Songs” album centers almost entirely on #Jews who lived in the #ghettos and #concentrationcamps of #Ukraine’s #Vinnytsia region, which was occupied by #Romania and #Nazi #Germany from 1941 to 1944."

https://www.jta.org/2026/07/17/culture/lost-holocaust-music-nearly-erased-by-stalin-goes-on-tour-in-asia

A new #exhibition at the old #synagogue in #Erfurt shows the #history of #Yiddish from its beginnings to the age of #printing
#ausstellung : Jiddisch/ייִדיש – Von den Anfängen bis zum Buchdruck.
https://mjsnow.hypotheses.org/22159

A new #exhibition at the old #synagogue in #Erfurt shows the #history of #Yiddish from its beginnings to the age of #printing
#ausstellung : Jiddisch/ייִדיש – Von den Anfängen bis zum Buchdruck.
https://mjsnow.hypotheses.org/22159

for anyone interested in #Yiddish #OralTraditions

https://journals.openedition.org/bcrfj/2862

איך האט געטון דער בעסטער וואָס איך קען הײַנט. איך וועל טון דער בעסטער וואָס איך קען נאָך מאָל מאָרגן.
#yiddish

איך האט געטון דער בעסטער וואָס איך קען הײַנט. איך וועל טון דער בעסטער וואָס איך קען נאָך מאָל מאָרגן.
#yiddish

"Planning a trip to New York?

If you’ll be in #NewYork before the end of the year, Psychedelicatessen: A Powerful Dose of #Art by #SteveMarcus offers a colorful and unconventional look at #Jewish culture through more than 30 #paintings, #prints and #sculptures that blend #Jewishhistory, #deli culture, #Yiddish #humor and 1960s #psychedelic #popart.

What: Psychedelicatessen: A Powerful Dose of Art by Steve Marcus
When: Through December 2026 (check the Center for Jewish #History website for current gallery hours)
Where: Center for Jewish History, 15 W. 16th St., New York, NY
Tickets: Admission is free."

https://stljewishlight.org/world-news/psychedelic-jewish-art-exhibit/

"Planning a trip to New York?

If you’ll be in #NewYork before the end of the year, Psychedelicatessen: A Powerful Dose of #Art by #SteveMarcus offers a colorful and unconventional look at #Jewish culture through more than 30 #paintings, #prints and #sculptures that blend #Jewishhistory, #deli culture, #Yiddish #humor and 1960s #psychedelic #popart.

What: Psychedelicatessen: A Powerful Dose of Art by Steve Marcus
When: Through December 2026 (check the Center for Jewish #History website for current gallery hours)
Where: Center for Jewish History, 15 W. 16th St., New York, NY
Tickets: Admission is free."

https://stljewishlight.org/world-news/psychedelic-jewish-art-exhibit/

אַידיש דראַמאַ יעדען טאָג: ״קאַסאַבלאַנקאַ״

Yiddish drama of the Day: "Casablanca" #Yiddish #YiddishSongoftheDay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj0-P6kDUfA

It's a ways off, but I definitely registered already! Sep 10, 2026 1:00pm
"Ruth Rubin was a renowned folklorist and singer, who spent decades preserving the rich musical tradition of Ashkenazi Jews. [...] Join us for a discussion featuring new scholarship drawing on Rubin's work by Isabel Frey and Miriam Borden, moderated by Mark Slobin, in honor of what would have been Rubin's 120th birthday."
https://yivo.org/Ruth-Rubin

#Yiddish #FolkSongs #ethnomusicology

It's a ways off, but I definitely registered already! Sep 10, 2026 1:00pm
"Ruth Rubin was a renowned folklorist and singer, who spent decades preserving the rich musical tradition of Ashkenazi Jews. [...] Join us for a discussion featuring new scholarship drawing on Rubin's work by Isabel Frey and Miriam Borden, moderated by Mark Slobin, in honor of what would have been Rubin's 120th birthday."
https://yivo.org/Ruth-Rubin

#Yiddish #FolkSongs #ethnomusicology

"An #interview with #JackieTohn is a mechayeh — it gives life. In general I feel like that particular #Yiddish word — mechayeh — shouldn’t be said unless you have a luscious white mustache and a regal mane of white hair, or you grew up actually speaking Yiddish on the regular.

But as the youth (used to?) say: Jackie #Tohn definitely gives me life. Even when the #Jewish “Nobody Wants This” and “Glow” star is couch-ridden after a back injury!

Tohn’s latest project is “#TheFloaters,” a #movie set at a very Jewish #summercamp, out in theaters this July 10. Tohn plays Nomi, a rockstar who gets kicked out of her band. She is drafted by her best friend, Mara (#SarahPodemski) to help steer her Jewish summer camp, Camp Daveed, and its “floaters” — the camp misfits — in the right direction, all while dealing with crumbling infrastructure and a bitter rivalry with neighboring Camp Barack, helmed by polo-wearing, golf-cart-riding Daniel (#SethGreen)."

https://www.kveller.com/jackie-tohn-was-a-jewish-summer-camp-superstar/

"An #interview with #JackieTohn is a mechayeh — it gives life. In general I feel like that particular #Yiddish word — mechayeh — shouldn’t be said unless you have a luscious white mustache and a regal mane of white hair, or you grew up actually speaking Yiddish on the regular.

But as the youth (used to?) say: Jackie #Tohn definitely gives me life. Even when the #Jewish “Nobody Wants This” and “Glow” star is couch-ridden after a back injury!

Tohn’s latest project is “#TheFloaters,” a #movie set at a very Jewish #summercamp, out in theaters this July 10. Tohn plays Nomi, a rockstar who gets kicked out of her band. She is drafted by her best friend, Mara (#SarahPodemski) to help steer her Jewish summer camp, Camp Daveed, and its “floaters” — the camp misfits — in the right direction, all while dealing with crumbling infrastructure and a bitter rivalry with neighboring Camp Barack, helmed by polo-wearing, golf-cart-riding Daniel (#SethGreen)."

https://www.kveller.com/jackie-tohn-was-a-jewish-summer-camp-superstar/

salute to them for the groan-worthy podcast name but here's my good friend Uri Schreter (lately of Queens U history department) talking about Jewish music on LP
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/uri-schreter-reverberations-jewish-music-in-the-lp-era/id1079443054?i=1000773896428

#JewishMusic #klezmer #Yiddish #LPs #MusicHistory #MusicIndustry

salute to them for the groan-worthy podcast name but here's my good friend Uri Schreter (lately of Queens U history department) talking about Jewish music on LP
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/uri-schreter-reverberations-jewish-music-in-the-lp-era/id1079443054?i=1000773896428

#JewishMusic #klezmer #Yiddish #LPs #MusicHistory #MusicIndustry

"Bridging the heartfelt and heartbreak with soaring celebration, traditional and contemporary #Yiddish #music will fill the air this July as the #Yidstock festival returns to the #YiddishBookCenter in #Amherst. The four-day cultural celebration, running from Thursday, July 9, through Sunday, July 12, features an array of #concerts, talks, workshops and #film screenings."

https://amherstbulletin.com/2026/07/07/preserving-a-language-through-song-yidstock-brings-vibrant-yiddish-culture-and-klezmer-to-the-valley/

"Bridging the heartfelt and heartbreak with soaring celebration, traditional and contemporary #Yiddish #music will fill the air this July as the #Yidstock festival returns to the #YiddishBookCenter in #Amherst. The four-day cultural celebration, running from Thursday, July 9, through Sunday, July 12, features an array of #concerts, talks, workshops and #film screenings."

https://amherstbulletin.com/2026/07/07/preserving-a-language-through-song-yidstock-brings-vibrant-yiddish-culture-and-klezmer-to-the-valley/

אַידיש ליד יעדען טאָג מאַכט אַ הפֿסק אַױף די דרײַ װאָכען

Yiddish Song of the Day is taking a break during the Three Weeks #Yiddish #YiddishSongoftheDay

Today, I learned that there is a #Yiddish version of #Canada 's national anthem #OhCanada . And it's good!

https://youtu.be/CarKYJ71lII?

Today, I learned that there is a #Yiddish version of #Canada 's national anthem #OhCanada . And it's good!

https://youtu.be/CarKYJ71lII?

came back from a 4 day camping trip with no internet at a queer camp in the interior, and to stop myself from going insane from not working on anything, I brought my old printouts of P. Gudman poems & a Yiddish dictionary to try and pick up where I left off a few years ago. mainly for language study.

Sadly I was defeated by this substandard value village purchased yiddish dictionary which probably has a third of all the words I was trying to look up😞 poetry

#Yiddish #AmateurTranslation #poems

אַױפֿגעפֿירט פֿונ די קלעזמאַטיקס "״אַידיש ליד יעדען טאָג: ״פֿרײַט אַײַך אַידעלאַך

Yiddish Song of the Day: "Jews, Be Happy!" performed by The Klezmatics #Yiddish #YiddishSongoftheDay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrjpaoT6bfw

אַידיש ליד יעדען טאָג: ״דער גרױסער באַשעפֿער״ אַױפֿגעפֿירט פֿון לוי פֿאַלקוביץ

Yiddish Song of the Day: "The Great Creator" performed by Levi Falkowitz #Yiddish #YiddishSongoftheDay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUzB0SHMn44

אַידיש ליד יעדען טאָג: ״עפּיס בעסער״ אַױפֿגעפֿירט פֿון מיכאַל שניצלער

Yiddish Song of the Day: "A Little Better" performed by Michael Shnitzler #Yiddish #YiddishSongoftheDay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx6_IqG6y0E

אַידיש ליד יעדען טאָג: ״הײַסער בולגאַר״ אַױפֿגעפֿירט פֿון יצחק פּערלמאַן

Yiddish Song of the Day: "Haysar Bulgar" performed by Yitzchak Perlman and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra #Yiddish #YiddishSongoftheDay #Klezmer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH5-1BnNK8U

Time for #trainspotting and #Yiddish #singers

"I recently presented a paper on #KhaimZhitlovsky, a major proponent of #secular #Jewish #diaspora nationalism and Jewish nationhood, at the Association for #Canadian #JewishStudies annual conference at #YorkUniversity in #Toronto.

#Zhitlovsky was born in #Ushachi near #Vitebsk in what is now #Belarus in 1865. A leading architect of secular #Jewishculture and thought, he was a central figure in the progressive Jewish intelligentsia of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in #Canada and the #UnitedStates.

At a Jewish International Cultural Conference organized in #Paris in September 1937, the Alveltlekher #Yiddisher Kultur Farband (#YKUF) was founded, and he was one of the supporters. As the honorary president of the YKUF in the #UnitedStates, Zhitlovsky became an icon of the #Yiddishist #Communist movement, particularly in western Canada, where he had inspired the founding of a strong secular #Yiddish school system."

https://jewishpostandnews.ca/features/a-left-wing-yiddishist-in-western-canada/

איך האט געטון דער בעסטער וואָס איך קען הײַנט. איך וועל טון דער בעסטער וואָס איך קען נאָך מאָל מאָרגן.
#yiddish

אַידיש ליד יעדען טאָג: ״מיר לעבענ עװיג״ אַףגעפֿירט פֿון לויסאַ לין

Yiddish Song of the Day: "We Will Live Forever" (Vilna ghetto song) performed by Louisa Lyne #Yiddish #YiddishSongoftheDay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZnvx3sRkOg