“The Gospel According to Chaim” is billed as the first full-length Yiddish drama written in the United States in 70 years. (New York Jewish Week) — The true story of a formerly Hasidic Baltimore man ...

Yiddish Princess, a Yiddish rock band led by singer-songwriter Sarah Mina Gordon and composer and arranger Michael Winograd, will play at 9 p.m. Sunday at the Haven at First and Market. The six-piece ...

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The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene and the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue are joining forces to present the acclaimed cross-cultural concert “Soul to Soul” in a special augmented production ...

(New York Jewish Week) — On the evening of Dec. 25 — yes, Christmas — influential aughties Yiddish rock band Yiddish Princess will take the stage in Manhattan for a one-night-only reunion show.

Why do so many authors of news articles about the Yiddishist world get it wrong? This question has been plaguing Yiddish cultural critic Rokhl Kafrissen for years. “There is a certain narrative that ...

The cast of “The Last Yiddish Speaker” at the Proscenium Theatre at the Drake in Philadelphia. (Courtesy of The InterAct Theatre Company) The InterAct Theatre Co. is bringing a Jewish play, “The Last ...

The 1906 play God of Vengeance, written by Sholem Asch, caused a sensation when it was first performed across Europe. When the play was translated into English and performed on Broadway in 1923, the ...

Yiddish music has always evolved — from the shtetl to the stage, and now to the synth. For some time now a new wave of ...

Sign up for Forwarding the News, the Forward’s morning newsletter with all the news and analysis that matters to American Jews each day. Why do so many authors of ...