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How the Yiddish ‘poet of the people’ wrote more than 500 songs yet struggled to be heard

Separate the signal from the noise about antisemitism and understand current debates over Jewish safety. Sign up for the Antisemitism Decoded newsletter today. One of the first 1900s Yiddish recording ...
The Forward

VIDEO: ‘Shtisel’ bubbe Lea Koenig in a Yiddish music video

Lea Koenig, who played Shulem Shtisel’s mother Malka in the popular Israeli TV series Shtisel, sings a Yiddish song in a new music video posted on YouTube. The lyrics are accompanied by English ...
The Jewish Exponent

The Shvesters Bring Yiddish Melodies to Philadelphia

The Shvesters don’t just perform in Yiddish — they also cover Hebrew songs — but they aim to help keep the language alive through their music. Yiddish as a spoken language has been on the decline ...
Sun Sentinel

A new collection of Yiddish songs casts Israel as the ‘evildoer’ in Gaza

Yiddish is the language of the Jews of Eastern Europe and all the places to which they spread. It is the language of socialists and capitalists, the Partisans who fought the Nazis and most of the ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

In a new album, Yiddish becomes a language of queer belonging

Brooklyn-based musician Ira Khonen Temple blends Yiddish, klezmer and trans experience — and is resonating with a new generation of queer Jews. “I want to change the way I wear my shoes,” ...
The Forward

How the Yiddish ‘poet of the people’ wrote more than 500 songs yet struggled to be heard

This essay has been adapted from a chapter in Henry H. Sapoznik’s new book The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City (Excelsior Editions, an imprint of State University of New York Press). One ...