Tag: yiddish

By DORIS RUBENSTEIN Why has Ari Hoptman chosen Is That Why? as the title for his one-man show at this ...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER A frequent theme among Isaac Bashevis Singer’s newly translated wartime essays is his lament for the ...

By SAM SOKOL NEW YORK (JTA) — Evidently I’m a “f***ing Jew bastard.” Earlier this month I had just arrived ...

Publicity for The Butcher’s Share (Oriente Musik), the new album by Daniel Kahn and The Painted Bird, notes that the ensemble ...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Un mir zaynen ale brider, oy, oy ale brider / Un mit zingen freylekhe lider, oy oy ...

by MAX SPARBER Community News Editor Paula Vogel, who has long been one of America’s premier playwrights, nonetheless has experienced ...

Schvitz, delis and Yiddish: Becoming an old Jewish man by MAX SPARBER Community News Editor I’m not quite sure when ...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Eddy Portnoy’s charming collection of strange Jewish news stories begins by describing an all-but-vanished press that ...

Main character Rebecca Bunch’s Judaism is a huge part of the series, recurring in ways both explicit and subtle By ...

The Minnesota Orchestra will welcome the Klezmatics — the Grammy Award-winning superstars of klezmer — 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 8 ...