Yiddish

Hampshire College, incubator of Yiddish Book Center, pioneer in Holocaust studies, to close

The closure, which follows semester after years of financial troubles, won’t affect the Yiddish Book Center, which operates on land purchased from the college in Amherst, Massachusetts.

|ByANDREW LAPIN/JTA
A copy of Say It In Yiddish.
Esther Kreitman (nee Singer), born in 1891 in Biłgoraj, Poland, to a rabbinic family, became a Yiddish-language novelist and short story writer.

There was always a third Singer: Yiddish literary diamonds revealed - review

Esther Kreitman, sister of Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, wrote powerful Yiddish fiction capturing Jewish life, struggle, and survival.

|ByNOAH ROTHSTEIN
‘To be worthy, every individual must work on himself.’

Parashat Vayikra: Mutual responsibility

Vayikra’s message of purity, repentance, and unity teaches that even without sacrifices, we can draw closer to God and to one another.

|ByRABBI SHMUEL RABINOWITZ
L to R: Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, US President Donald Trump against backdrop of respective flags and missile strikes.

Living on pins and needles: Israel faces uncertainty at the prospect of war - opinion

Between daily life and existential threat, Israel is in an anxious twilight zone, with its citizens living without stability.

|ByDAVID M. WEINBERG

What is the status of Jewish languages in Canada?

It seems still worthwhile to use Canada census data to find out how these languages are doing in regard to being used and studied vs. just being abandoned and therefore shrinking from view.

DECEMBER 2, 2022ByLEO DAVIDS
Canadian flag

Grapevine: The energetic Quint

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

NOVEMBER 20, 2022ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Rabbi Emanuel and Rena Quint

Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish returning for limited off-Broadway run

The limited production will run from November 13, 2022, to January 1, 2023.

OCTOBER 14, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Fiddler on the Roof

Grapevine October 9, 2022: A different Balfour Day celebration

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

OCTOBER 9, 2022ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
NOBEL PRIZE laureate in Chemistry Carolyn Bertrozzi with President Isaac Herzog when she came to Israel to receive the Wolf Prize.

Grapevine October 9, 2022: A different Balfour Day celebration

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

OCTOBER 8, 2022ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
NOBEL PRIZE laureate in Chemistry Carolyn Bertrozzi with President Isaac Herzog when she came to Israel to receive the Wolf Prize.

Saving literature from amnesia: Revisiting Isaac Bashevis Singer - review

Even though not clearly observant, Yiddishkeit is manifest in Singer’s writings. The presence of God can be seen in his writings.

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022BySANDRA LEE BRAUDE
BILGORAJ, POLAND – Isaac Bashevis Singer’s memorial bench in 2016.

Boys in hasidic schools regularly beaten, denied basic secular education - NYT

A year-long investigation into the New York hasidic school system by The New York Times found that the children in these schools were suffering from severe educational deprivation.

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
An Orthodox Jewish boy walks by a Yeshiva school bus, as New York City, April 9, 2019.

Shmulik Atzmon is helping keep Yiddish alive, will work till age 100

One of the newest books in Shmulik Atzmon’s collection is his own autobiography, Dreaming in Yiddish (Hebrew), which sums up the 70 years he spent onstage during his 93 years of life.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022ByDUDI FATIMER
Shmulik Atzmon

Grapevine August 28, 2022: Brazil's bi-centenary

Movers and shakers of Israeli society.

AUGUST 28, 2022ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
BRAZIL’S PRESIDENT Jair Bolsonaro takes part in a welcome ceremony for the urn with the heart of Portuguese monarch Dom Pedro I, who declared Brazil’s independence from Portugal 200 years ago, at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, earlier this week.

Shlepping Nachas: The four man Jerusalem hassidic reggae music band

After putting out several viral music videos in recent months, Shlepping Nachas is currently touring the US and has high hopes for the future – if that’s the divine plan.

AUGUST 27, 2022ByZEV STUB
SHLEPPING NACHAS takes the stage.