- 5782, Brooklyn, Chanukah, Chanumas, Clarinet, Cooking, Dreidel, Dreydl, Khanike, Klezmer, Menorah, Music, Wandering, Yiddish
Oy Khanike, Mir Geyen Esn…un Tantsn…un Lakhn!
Was there ever a Khanike as worthy of the record books as 5782 (MMXXI)? After a holiday season spent mostly alone or in small households, this year was a time to enjoy safely…
- 5781, 5782, Chevrutah, Clarinet, Culture, Dancing, Kishefmakhn, Klezmer, Music, NYC, Saxophone, Theatre, Yiddish, Yiddish Culture, Yiddishland
Yiddishland Mayses
If you wanna feel your bobe’s presence, just go to Sylvan Lake. Whether this is an idea full of emes or bupkes, my time in Yiddishland was fun der himl, full of glorious…
- Arbeter Ring, Baltimore, Brooklyn, Cincinnati, Cooking, History, Jewish Food, Klezmer, Libraries, Music, NCSSM, North Carolina, NYC, Shul, Travel, Williamsport, Yiddish, Yiddish Culture, Yiddishland
Zumer in the City
A long year in the unknown stretched into a spring and summer of hope with vaccinations, some travel, copious time spent with friends and family, and plenty of time outdoors. After receiving my…
- New York, Philadelphia, Poland, Reyzl Fenster, Stories, Sun on the Mountain, Women's History Month, Yiddish Book Center, Yiddish Women Writers, זון אױף בּאַרג, רײזל גלאַס-פֿענסטער
Hidden in the Community (Women’s History Day Twelve)
For someone who wrote many articles and published widely, Reyzl Glas-Fenster is not easy to find in a search, nor is her work readily accessible from the usual Yiddish troves. After her name…
- Blume Lempel, Brooklyn, Chava Rosenfarb, Galicia, Holocaust, Long Island, New York, Paris, Reyzl Fenster, Women's History Month, Yiddish Book Center, Yiddish Women Writers, בלומע לעמפּעל
Exploring Yiddish Secrets (Women’s History Day Eleven)
Today, there are lots of conversations (at least among the Yiddish-indulging) about the secret (or oft-ignored) lives of Yiddish women, particularly their thoughts and desires. Translators, learners, teachers, readers, descendants of Yiddish speakers,…
- Belarus, Canada, Chaya Zhukovsky, Den Mother, Ida Maze, Montreal, Women's History Month, Yiddish, Yiddish Book Center, Yiddish Culture, Yiddish Salon, Yiddish Women Writers, אײַדע מאַזע
Yiddish Montreal’s “Den Mother” (Women’s History Day Ten)
Leaving as refugees of the pogroms from Belarus, Ida Maze (then Chaya Zhukovsky) fled first to New York, then to Montreal with her family (parents and one of her six siblings) as a…
- British Mandate, Columbia University, Holocaust, Israel, Kibbutz, Poetry, Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim, Soviet Yiddish Writers, Vilna Ghetto, Yiddish, Yiddish Women Writers, Yung Yisroel
L’Dor V’Dor – Carrying on Poetry from a Woman’s Perspective (Women’s History Day Nine)
Growing up on Kadya Molodowsky, did Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim know she’d also become a famous writer? Would Rivka’s career have started as early, or been as a poet, without the Holocaust? Who knows…
- Anthologies, California, Di Yunge, Fradl Shtok, Frances Zinn, Galicia, Genealogy, New York, Poetry, Sonnets, Stories, Women's History Month, Yiddish, Yiddish Women Writers
Yiddish Sonnet-ing (Women’s History Day Eight)
Coming over in the wave of Eastern European Jewish immigrants in the first decade of the 1900s, Fradl Shtok left Galicia and found herself in New York City as a young woman. Having…
- Canada, Chava Rosenfarb, Goldie Morgentaler, I.L. Peretz, Jewish Literature, Translator, Wexler Oral History Project, Women's History Month, Yiddish Book Center, Yiddish Women Writers
Like Mother, Like Daughter (Women’s History Day Seven)
In perhaps the easiest connection I’ll find this month, I want to give credit to Chava Rosenfarb’s daughter, Goldie Morgentaler. She translated her mother’s work, the work of other Yiddish writers including I.L.…
- Alberta, Canada, Chava Rosenfarb, Holocaust, Łódź Ghetto, Novels, Poetry, Poland, Women's History Month, Yiddish, Yiddish Book Center, Yiddish Women Writers, חוה ראָזענפֿאַרב
Yiddishizing in Translation for a New World (Women’s History Day Six)
Her writing career began at eight years old with poems – but that was not when Chava Rosenfarb became known as an important post-WWII Yiddish writer, of course. First, she had to survive…