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  • My Yiddishe Mamme - Cantor and Rock Star Join In Mothers Day Tribute From Australia


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    Today is Mothers Day in many countries, including the United States and Australia. One of the best loved musical tributes to Jewish mothers is the song My Yiddishe Mamme , written by Jack Yellen and Lew Pollack in 1925. It was first recorded by Willie Howard, and was made famous in v audeville by Belle Baker ...
    6 days ago
  • Can Anyone Help with a Yiddish Rhyme that Starts, with "Salz Schmalz"?


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    Debra wrote asking for help with a Yiddish rhyme: The following has been passed down through the ages (at least 150 years) by my mothers family, though we can only guess what the words mean now or the correct spelling of the words. I am hoping you may recognize it or be able to decipher it at least. The words were ...
    1 week ago
  • Can Anyone Help with a Yiddish Rhyme that Sounds Like, "Sipicle sipicle amadal"?


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    Jeff wrote asking for help with a Yiddish song.  Here’s his email: Hi, I grew up reciting a Yiddish rhyme or song where we pinched the skin on the back of each others hands and bobbed them up and down while saying something like (and I’m just writing what it sounded like): "Sipicle sipicle amadal, kimsimir ...
    1 week ago
  • Shane Baker, Episcopalian Comedian and Actor, Starts New Yiddish Series, The Sheyn Show


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    Shane Baker, a comedian and actor who was raised Episcopalian, is one of the most prominent proponents of Yiddish theater, language and culture in New York. He is a member of the New Yiddish Repertory Company , one of the two major Yiddish theater companies left in New York City, along with the more traditional ...
    1 week ago
  • Theater Review: ‘The Megile of Itzik Manger,’ by National Yiddish Theater


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    The work of a Yiddish poet and a klezmer composer are combined in “The Megile of Itzik Manger.”        
    2 weeks ago
  • Jewish Traces in Unexpected Places: African-American Convert Embraces Yiddish Music


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    New Yiddish singing stars are hard to find these days. Yiddish songs are usually sung by veterans of the old Second Avenue Yiddish theatre circuit and in revivals by theatre groups such as the Folksbiene Playhouse. Now a new, dynamic opera singer, Anthony Russell, has emerged on the Yiddish singing scene. An ...
    2 weeks ago
  • A Language Beginning With Y:


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    YIDDISH -  ייִדיש There are around 1.8 million native speakers in Israel, the USA and Russia. It is written in the Hebrew alphabet, and is used mainly by Ashkenazic Jews. Due to the Holocaust, the use of Yiddish as an everyday language suddenly and rapidly declined. Read lots more. More ...
    2 weeks ago
  • $500,000 Donation by Eli Ostreicher to Bonei Olam


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    Despite the Ateres Chaya banqueting halls in Brooklyn, NY being filled to capacity with over 5,500 people; one could hear a pin drop as the Bonei Olam president Rabbi Schlomo Bochner made this surprise announcement.With tears in his eyes Rabbi Bochner deeply thanked Eli Ostreicher of Regal Wings and several other ...
    3 weeks ago
  • A Nostalgic Look Back at Jewish Comedy On Second Avenue


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    In 2005 the Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre staged a tribute to the Jewish comedy performed in the early twentieth century on Second Avenue on the Lower East Side of New York City. The show included some classic skits from the Yiddish theatre. On Second Avenue was created by Moishe Rosenfeld and Zalmen Mlotek. ...
    3 weeks ago
  • Child Soloist Yanky Stern at RCCS Dinner with Mezamrim


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    Mezamrim Presents child soloist Yanky Stern from Israel performing "My visit in the hospital" at the RCCS dinner in Williamsburg accompanied by The Hamizamrim Choir.
    4 weeks ago
  • American Polyglot Practicing 20 Languages [Video]


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    Intimidating and inspiring at the same time. I too can speak a couple of languages, English and Idiot. American Polyglot Practicing 20 Languages [Video] is a post from: The Inquisitr
    5 weeks ago

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