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• 19 Recommended Chanukka Books for Kids

  
  Hilltown Families — Authority: 135
  Family Titles for ChanukkaThe National Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA recommends the following Chanukka books for kids: Hanukkah Around the WorldBy Lehman-Wilzig, TamiHanukkah HaikuBy Ziefert, HarrietHanukkah LightsBy Martin, DavidA Chanukah Present for Me!By Scholastic, Inc.Hanukkah!By Schotter, RoniIt’s ...
  7 hours ago

• The Thing about Yiddish

  
  Underbelly — Authority: 552
  Benjamin Harshav catches and undertakes to explain a paradox of Yiddish: for such a rich language, it has a curiously limited vocabulary. But Harhav says: Yiddish speakers speak not so much with individual referring words as with such clusters of relations, ready-made idioms, quotations and situational responses. ...
  9 hours ago

• A bisel Yiddish

  
  ISRAELITY — Authority: 430
  My sister and brother-in-law are taking a Yiddish class, which, given the fact that they live in the very Yemenite Rosh Haayin, is somewhat ironic. Then again, the world that is Israel in 2009 is one that is expanding and changing all the time.In fact, according to Hebrew University, Yiddish is blossoming and is ...
  10 hours ago

• New York: Yiddish notes

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 480
  Yiddish music is experiencing a revival, based on collections in various archives and through releases of recorded music from those collections. The New York Jewish Weeks Jonathan Mark reported on the Mayrent Collection which is now available - in part - as a three-CD set with 67 tracks compiled from old 78s. ...
  19 hours ago

• A Few Choice Yiddish Words

  
  Gypsy Camp Blog — Authority: 155
  The Yiddish language is the language of the Ashkenazi Jews that developed from about the 10th century in the Rhineland and then spread to central and eastern Europe and eventually to other continents. Besides German, Yiddish also borrows words from Polish and Russian. In the late60s, there were apparently about 10 ...
  4 days ago

• Viva dead languages: help save Yiddish

  
  Jewschool — Authority: 520
  A recent article in the Washington Jewish Week reports that the University of Maryland in College Park may discontinue its Yiddish language courses after a 30 year run. As a campus with one of the most vibrant Jewish student populations in the U.S., UMD’s decision carries a special symbolic weight. Many Yiddish ...
  4 days ago

• Coming Attractions in Theater: December 2009

  
  The Arts Fuse Blog — Authority: 124
  By Bill Marx Hanukkah holiday entertainment: Well-women Vardit Haimi-Cohen and Janet Buchwald trap the courageous Shulamis (Grace Field) during the Yiddish operetta premiering at Harvard University . The prospect of Christmas cheer on stage is pretty depressing to contemplate after the soporific treacle of ...
  5 days ago

• Words your grandmother taught you in Chinese, Dutch and Yiddish

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 591
  Download audio file (WIWpodcast74.mp3) Did Barack Obama learn a word or two from his grandmother? Well, maybe not — he didn’t grow up with the gran pictured here (it’s his Kenyan stepmother). But many people did learn their very first foreign words from their grandmothers. The Big Show’s Marco ...
  5 days ago

• Following The Trail

  
  Pink Granite — Authority: 420
  It’s not that I’m easily distracted, it’s that I become very focused on a task. Sometimes, said task, causes me to head to Google. That leads me to follow promising leads, backtrack, regroup and follow new leads - bookmarking wildly as I go. Which is how I ended up at the Library of Congress tonight, after I ...
  1 week ago

• Yiddish Theater: A Love Story (DVD)

  
  Art Journals — Authority: 146
  Yiddish Theater: A Love Story (DVD)…
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• Book: Yiddish Given Names

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 480
  Rella Israly Cohns "Yiddish Given Names" (Scarecrow Press, 2008) is a new one for Tracing the Tribe. The work, based on the authors dissertation, was mentioned recently on the Jewish librarians discussion list. It offers 256 given names used in the modern period (since 1750). Patrick J. Stevens, selector for Jewish ...
  1 week ago

• New Israeli Educational Stamps Posted Online

  
  Good News from Israel — Authority: 110
  Hi Everyone! I scanned and posted on my website the new Israeli stamps that were issued in November 2009. I included the stamp itself, the first day cover, and an English and a Hebrew flyer about the stamp. - Maritime Archeology in Israel - Lighthouses in Israel - The Yiddish Theatre in Lasi, Romania (1876) ...
  1 week ago

• Lot’s of Fun with Yiddish Words

  
  Web Design TB — Authority: 157
  Ashkenazi Jews from Europe often speak the Yiddish language, whereas Sephardic Jews speak Ladino. Yiddish seems to be a cross of Hebrew, Russian, German, and Polish and is written with the Hebrew alphabet. The language developed in the 10th and 11th centuries in the Rhineland and then spread other parts of Europe and ...
  1 week ago

• Yiddish: Got a summer or a year?

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 480
  Our family lost Yiddish and Russian back in 1905 when great-grandma told her kids, upon arrival in Newark NJ, that they were Americans and must only speak English from then on. Of course, she herself never did! Yiddish - the Russian disappeared almost immediately - lasted for another complete generation of fluent ...
  1 week ago

• The Jews Are a Race, Not a Religion

  
  INCOG MAN: Sick of all the BS... — Authority: 125
  What Whites need to understand.
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• Fencing Tournament

  
  Kansas City with the Russian Accent — Authority: 120
  Couple of weeks ago unbeknown to you the Russian population of this Metro Area has doubled for a few days. A surprising number of Russian-speaking coaches, parents and participants arrived to Kansas City for the U.S. Fencing North American Cup Tournament. There were of course many others (some of them even Americans ...
  2 weeks ago

• Theater Review | Sholom Aleichem: Laughter Through Tears: Extending the Reach of a Great Yiddish Writer, Unto the Next Generation

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 899
  Theodore Bikel performing “Sholom Aleichem: Laughter Through Tears.”
  2 weeks ago

• So, How Did You Spend YOUR Weekend?

  
  AnAtheist.Net — Authority: 129
  I hope you found a better way to use your time than this: “Sabbath” Protest Targets Intel (The BBC; Nov 14) Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem have protested outside the offices of the US firm, Intel, against the plant operating on the Jewish day of rest. The demonstrators chanted “Shabbes! ...
  2 weeks ago

• Break a Leg! Grrrrrrrrrrrrr!!

  
  THE BARKSDALE BUZZ: Behind the Scenes at Barksdale Theatre in Central VA — Authority: 115
  Posted by Bruce MillerHappy Friday the 13th! What better time to begin a series on superstitions in the theatre?There seem to be 10 to 20 irrational but nonetheless traditional beliefs that have bounced around from time to time and stage to stage. There are certainly three that are observed with regularity right here ...
  3 weeks ago

• Contemporary Klezmer - A Solo Clarinet

  
  A Diary Left Open — Authority: 130
  I now have a "series" of cool contemporary Klezmer pieces, so this is the second one that I wanted to share with you. Klezmer seems perfect to enjoy during the onset of the holiday season. I also found some funny little archival clips that seemed to work well in three of the pieces because Klezmer celebrates laughter. ...
  3 weeks ago

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