Yiddish

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.

Esther Kreitman (nee Singer), born in 1891 in Biłgoraj, Poland, to a rabbinic family, became a Yiddish-language novelist and short story writer.
‘To be worthy, every individual must work on himself.’

Parashat Vayikra: Mutual responsibility

 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

Irene Aue-Ben-David

Dr. Irene Aue-Ben-David: Preserving the history of German Jewry - interview


Brad Lander just cursed Andrew Cuomo in Yiddish

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander clapped back at Andrew Cuomo with a Yiddish curse after being accused of anti-Israel actions during a synagogue speech.

 Andrew Cuomo (L) and Brad Lander (R).

Rescued from the archives and wrestled into print: Behind Chaim Grade's last Yiddish novel

Finished or not, “Sons and Daughters” is a vivid, Tolstoyan examination of what Kirsch calls “a family struggling with the meaning of Jewishness in the twentieth century.”

Chaim Grade’s "Sons and Daughters" was originally serialized in the 1960s and '70s, in New York–based Yiddish newspapers.

Grapevine March 16, 2025: A yen for Yiddish

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 DR. EFRAT BRON-HARLEV holds her award.

Mayim Bialik teaches Noa Tishby the rules of dreidel on Hanukkah's third night

Bialik taught Tishby that there are different outcomes to spinning and landing on each of the four sides of the dreidel.

 Mayim Bialik (illustrative)

Eight incredible things to do during Hanukkah in NYC this year

Looking to stay entertained during this busy, chilly time of year? Here at the New York Jewish Week, we’ve got you covered.

 The pop-up Maccabee Bar is back in a new location this year.

Grapevine December 1, 2024: Yiddish in Japan?

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 The streets of Tokyo

How the NY Public Library acquired a ‘treasure trove’ of Jewish and Yiddish music

Netsky said he thinks the Yiddish theater music in the archive files is particularly valuable because it was maligned by the classical composers as shund (trash) and neglected.

 NYC Public Library Research Room Jan 2006.

Grapevine, October 13, 2024 : Of conferences and ceremonies

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 POLICE LEAD away a protester who tried to block Tel Aviv’s  Ayalon Highway during a demonstration in September.

Fania Brantsovsky, last living Vilna ghetto partisan resistance fighter, dies at 102

Fania Brantsovsky, the last survivor of the Vilna ghetto and a Yiddish culture advocate, died at 102, mourning a rich Jewish past.

 Vilnius, Lithuania

Meet the Jewish mom whose first sentence on Netflix was in Yiddish

Fifty-four-year-old Levy didn’t hold back her Yiddish, entering her introductory confessional with an “Oy, gott! Oy gevolt” as she comically struggled to climb on the stool.

 Jewish "The Circle" contestant Debbie Schwartzberg Levy.