Le télégramme

À Plescop, concerts et théâtre vont rythmer le centre culturel Le Poulpe en novembre et décembre

Musique klezmer, chanson française, théâtre d’objets… concerts et spectacle rythmeront la programmation du centre culturel du Poulpe, à Plescop, en novembre et en décembre. Loïc Le Trionnaire et Agnès ...
Le Dauphiné Libéré

Saint-Prim. De la belle musique yiddish jouée à l’église

Le groupe Yiddishka a donné un concert à l’église le dimanche 12 octobre. Une prestation qui a emporté le public de l’Espagne aux plaines de l’Europe centrale aux sons du violon, de la clarinette et ...
The Jewish Exponent

At YIVO, an Unfinished Yiddish Dictionary Gets the Last Word — as Opera

In the hallways of New York’s YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the story was told as a punchline: the great Yiddish dictionary project that took 25 years and never got beyond the first letter of ...
The Times of Israel

At NY’s YIVO, a legendary unfinished Yiddish dictionary gets the last word — as opera

New York Jewish Week — In the hallways of New York’s YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the story was told as a punchline: the great Yiddish dictionary project that took 25 years and never got beyond ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

At YIVO, an unfinished Yiddish dictionary gets the last word — as opera

To mark its centenary, YIVO stages a work about the competing visions for a monumental, and aborted, reference work about the language of Eastern Europe’s Jews. In the hallways of New York’s YIVO ...
The New York Times

The Dueling Scholars Who Bickered a Yiddish Dictionary Into Existence

The Jewish tradition of debate is at the center of a new chamber opera about two scholars clashing over a Yiddish dictionary in the aftermath of World War II. By Rob Tannenbaum Arguments, on topics ...
Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace

Strasbourg Découvrez la splendeur la musique klezmer et yiddish ce 22 août à Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune

Ce vendredi 22 août, l’ensemble Klezmhear présentera un concert intitulé “Etz Haïm” (“L’Arbre de vie”, en hébreu) dans la nef puis le cloître de Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune, à Strasbourg. La formation ...
Queen Mary University of London

Cockney Yiddish: how two languages influenced each other in London’s East End

Yiddish is a familiar presence in contemporary English speech. Many people use or at least know the meaning of words like chutzpah (audacity), schlep (drag) or nosh (snack). These words have been ...
Le Journal de Saône-et-Loire

Genouilly Un récital de musique yiddish à la Maison du terroir

Dans le cadre du festival “Voix d’ailleurs”, Anna Kupfer chantera à la Maison du terroir, à Genouilly, samedi 17 mai. Cette comédienne et chanteuse, originaire de Berlin, est arrivée en Bourgogne il y ...
The Times of Israel

How Yiddish writer Chaim Grade’s last novel was rescued and wrestled into print

(JTA) — Sixty years after he first began serializing it in the Yiddish press, and 42 years after publisher Alfred A. Knopf acquired the book, “Sons and Daughters” — the last novel by the late, great ...
KQED

Yiddish Making A Comeback In Los Angeles

Inside Der Nister Downtown Jewish Center, a hybrid bookstore and synagogue on the 14th floor of an old bank building in Downtown Los Angeles, a small crowd focuses on the space’s co-founder, Zach ...
Londonist

Cockney Yiddish Podcast Explores The Jewish East End

A new podcast recalls the history, culture and influence of the Yiddish East End. Nosh, schmooze, chutzpah... words that many of us still use today. They come from Yiddish, a Jewish language widely ...