Montreal’s Yiddish literary heritage celebrated in a podcast from Blue Met
Listeners are taken through the streets where writers once thrived.
Shternshis: When Jewish humour divides us
“What do we do today, when political borders and hundreds of years of separate histories have divided Jewish people into groups that can laugh at each other, but not with each other?”
Shternshis: There’s no YIVO without its librarians
New York-based YIVO Institute for Jewish Research fired all four of its librarians, citing a budget deficit. Anna Shternshis writes about the tragic loss.
Yiddish institute YIVO, facing budget shortfall, lays off its library staff
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, which preserves and promotes the study of Eastern European and Yiddish culture, has laid off four librarians to make up for a budget shortfall.
Montrealer wins Yiddish singing competition in Mexico
In February, Janie Respitz of Montreal was crowned an Idisher Idol, after winning the prize for best interpretation of an existing Yiddish song at the final contest in Mexico City.
Fifteen-year-old sang on Grammy-nominated album
Susan Minuk interviews Isaac Rosenberg, a local teenager who contributed to Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II, an album that was nominated for a Grammy award.
A YIVO conference finds a new audience for Yiddish anarchism
Yiddish anarchism is alive and well, writes the JTA.
The road to Yiddish Glory’s Grammy nomination
Marc Weisblott writes about the background of the album Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II, which was recently nominated for a Grammy award.
Canadian Jewish Literary Awards handed out in Toronto
On Oct. 14, 120 people gathered at York University in Toronto, to honour the recipients of the 2018 Canadian Jewish Literary Awards, which is sponsored and administered by the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies at York.
The Yiddish songs of London’s East End
As part of her North American book tour, Vivi Lachs will be stopping in Toronto to deliver a lecture in Cockney Yiddish, co-sponsored by the UJA Committee for Yiddish and the Toronto Workmen’s Circle.
