Between the late '30s and 2006, the number of Yiddish stage theaters in the Big Apple sadly dwindled from twelve to one. Two of the last remaining institutions were the Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre, ...
Yiddish music has always evolved — from the shtetl to the stage, and now to the synth. For some time now a new wave of ...
Candy Cohn used to always speak with her mother, Lillian Cohn, in English, with a few words here and there in Yiddish. Then one day, Lillian, of Delray Beach, started singing a beautiful Yiddish love ...
Set in Berlin and New York's Lower East Side, The Great Yiddish Love stars the self-exiled Marlene Dietrich and her Nazi-endorsed replacement, Zarah Leander. It is a melodrama of love, emigration, and ...
Celebration trumps mourning at the return of Yidstock, the 10-year-old festival of new Yiddish music. AMHERST, Massachusetts (JTA) — Josh Dolgin, the Canadian rapper and klezmer musician who performs ...
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A Yiddish circus in a suitcase

German audiences are enthusiastic about the show “Tshemodan,” where circus artists perform to a live klezmer band ...
The “Daily Show” host and Texas senator are locked in a Yiddish-language showdown. (JTA) — Ted Cruz has “chutzpah” — on the tip of his tongue. The Republican Texas senator’s frequent use of the ...
After a lengthy effort, artifacts from collections in Lithuania and New York that document Yiddish culture in Eastern Europe before World War II will be accessible to scholars and others. By Joseph ...
There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...