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Yiddish – The Mame Loshn (Yiddish - the Mother Tongue)
… Stone and Pierre Sauvage Produced by Pierre Sauvage Yiddish used to be a language that was spoken by over ten … decreased. This emmy-award winning film interviews American Yiddish speakers including actors and comedians, such as David Steinberg, about the Yiddish language and culture. Different aspects of the culture are discussed such …
In Zaltsikn Yam - A Yiddish Workers' Song
… Yam” (In the Salty Sea), an early-twentieth-century Yiddish workers' song [See also Song of the Month for May … in Vilnius in 1897. The poem was first published in the Yiddish socialist journal Der Arbayter in 1902. It was … 2006. “Introduction: An-sky and the Guises of Modern Jewish Culture.” In The Worlds of S.An-sky: A Russian Jewish …
Goldfaden's Legacy: The Origins of Yiddish Theater
… Jewish population, as well as the influence of the New York Yiddish Theater on popular American culture. The film touches on modern revivals of popular Yiddish theater productions, specifically the activity of …
Yiddish Folksong (The Music of the Yiddish Folksong)
… The Yiddish language, which probably began to develop around the … and the folksongs, like many other elements of Ashkenazi culture, are made up of a combination of components from … periods: the vocabulary, syntax, morphology, and prosody of Yiddish combine German and Hebrew components, and in Eastern …

The Evolution of a Musical Symbol in Yiddish Culture
… … Mark Slobin … The Evolution of a Musical Symbol in Yiddish Culture …

Le Blues du Yiddish
… by Sylvie Anne Goldberg and Alex Szalat This film is about Yiddish culture in Paris. The soundtrack features Yiddish songs and there are also performances of songs such …
Mordkhe Shekhter
… school and high school. He studied Torah and writing Yiddish privately. In 1944 he left for Bucharest, completed … geography at the University of Bucharest. He studied Yiddish philology (1945-1946) with Khayim Gininger. He spent … the Weinreich Program in Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture from its beginning in 1968 until 2004; the program …

Yiddish Theater: A Love Story
… is of Zypora Spaisman, who dedicated her life to keeping Yiddish theater and culture alive into the 21st century and the hardships which … eight days of her production of Peretz Hirschbein's 1916 Yiddish play, Grine Felder (Green Fields). These eight days …

Unintentional History: Musical Moments in 1930s Yiddish Films
… of Jewish life. The commercially-inspired music of the Yiddish-language film of the 1930s in Poland and the United … the short flowering of a vital, transatlantic Jewish cinema culture. Harsh economic and political realities combined … statement: images of people praying and fiddling. … 23259 … Yiddish … Yiddish Films … Jewish music … Yiddish songs … …
Had Gadya in Israeli Culture
… this manuscript version the song appears in Aramaic with a Yiddish-German translation (in Hebrew characters). This Yiddish-German version was studied in detailed by Chone … attesting for its widespread appeal in non-Jewish cultures in Europe and beyond. Among these famous parallels …