2021

Tablet Magazine, Streets of New York (December 28, 2021, mention)
Topic » Virtual Tenement Talk: New York in Yiddish Song

NPR, For some secular Jews, their pandemic hobby has been learning Yiddish (December 25, 2021, mention)
Topic » Yiddish

Times of Israel, The Quest For Revenge And Justice In Postwar Poland (December 23, 2021, also in Sheldon Kirshner)
Topic » Emotional Geography of Revenge: Polish Jews and the Search for Postwar Justice in the Polish Countryside

JTA, She loves Jewish literature. He loves her. So he proposed in a Yiddish library. (December 21, 2021, picked up by Jerusalem Post, Cleveland Jewish News, Forward, Sun Sentinel, The Jewish World, and Times of Israel)
Topic » YIVO News

The Jewish News of Northern California, New Yorker cartoonist brings to life lost Yiddish essays by European teens of 1930s (December 17, 2021)
Topic » YIVO Archives / When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers

Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage Magazine, The Modern Potato Latke Was Not Inevitable (December 1, 2021)
Topic » YIVO Archives

Jewish Renaissance, Send a Postcard (Autumn 2021)
Topic » The Yiddishists / YIVO Archives

Sheldon Kirshner, Nazism, Neo-Nazism And Music (November 25, 2021)
Topic » Nazism, Neo-Nazism And Music

Chicago Tribune, What We’re Reading: ‘When I Grow Up’ is a graphic novel created from discovered stories of Yiddish teenagers, just before Hitler’s invasion (November 18, 2021)
Topic » YIVO Archives / When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers

Jewish Standard,  ‘I figured I better learn some more Yiddish’ (November 17, 2021)
Topic » YIVO News

Jewish Book Council, Review: When I Grow Up: The Lost Auto­bi­ogra­phies of Six Yid­dish Teenagers (November 15, 2021, mention)
Topic » YIVO Archives / When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers

Chicago Magazine, Ken Krimstein Salvages the Stories of Pre-Holocaust Jewish Youths (November 11, 2021)
Topic » YIVO Archives / When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers

CBS, New graphic novel illustrates long-lost pre-WWII essays by Jewish teens (November 5, 2021)
Topic » YIVO Archives / When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers

eJewish Philanthropy, YIVO is professionalizing, growing and reviving a lost world (November 5, 2021)
Topic » Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

Jewish Week, Algemeiner editor buys the New York Sun • Rego Park synagogue faces wrecking ball • Food for Afghan refugees (November 4, 2021, mention, picked up by JTA)
Topic » YIVO Archives / When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers

NBC, Graphic Novel Illustrates Jewish Teen Life Through Writings Once Thought Lost During World War II (November 3, 2021)
Topic » YIVO Archives / When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers

Alma, 8 Jewish Books You Should Read This November (November 1, 2021, mention)
Topic » YIVO Archives / When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers

Jewish Week, New York divests from Ben & Jerry’s • Man convicted in 2018 antisemitic attack • Mandy Patinkin’s latest video (October 29, 2021, mention)
Topic » The Yiddish Historians and the Struggle for a Jewish History of the Holocaust

The Algemeiner, Long-Lost Essays Penned by Jewish Teens on Brink of Holocaust Inspires New Book (October 27, 2021, mention)
Topic » YIVO Archives / When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers

The Forward, ‘It’s so easy to lose touch’: Recovering the history of David Duchovny’s grandfather, a Yiddish writer (October 17, 2021, mention)
Topic » YIVO Archives

Tablet Magazine, The Sound of Music (October 15, 2021, mention)
Topic » 10 Hebrew Folk Songs and Folk Dances by Lazare Saminsky / Ten Yiddish Songs by Alexander Krein

Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage Magazine, Di Goldene Land: Yiddish Songs of the American Dream and a Bitter Reality (October 12, 2021)
Topic » YIVO Archives

The Forward, Does Sarah Silverman actually have a point about ‘Jewface?’ (October 11, 2021,mention)
Topic » Jewface: "Yiddish" Dialect Songs of Tin Pan Alley

Jewish Week, Gov. Hochul announces $25m in security grants • WhatsApp outage hits hard among Orthodox Jews • Nazi hunter Neal Sher dies (October 7, 2021, mention, picked up by JTA)
Topic » Sholem Aleichem Rediscovered: The Newly Translated Moshkeleh Ganev

JTA, ‘Fiddler’ meets ‘The Sopranos’: A gritty, forgotten novel by Sholom Aleichem is published in English for the first time (October 6, 2021, mention)
Topic » Sholem Aleichem Rediscovered: The Newly Translated Moshkeleh Ganev

Jewish Ledger, Little-Known work of Sholem Aleichem translated into English (October 5, 2021)
Topic » Sholem Aleichem Rediscovered: The Newly Translated Moshkeleh Ganev

Jewish Week, Yeshivah of Flatbush mourns longtime dean • SCOTUS to hear looted art case • The gooey appeal of kasha varnishkes (October 1, 2021, mention, picked up by JTA and Jewish Journal)
Topic » YIVO News

Tablet Magazine, Return of the Thief (October 1, 2021, mention)
Topic » Sholem Aleichem Rediscovered: The Newly Translated Moshkeleh Ganev

Jewish Boston, Triumph of the Creative Spirit Through Yiddish Art During COVID (September 27, 2021)
Topic » Continuing Evolution 2: Yiddish Folksong in Classical Music

My Jewish Learning, This Jewish Restaurateur Died in the Holocaust, But Her Vegetarian Cookbook Lives On (September 20, 2021, mention)
Topic » The Vilne Vegetarian Cookbook

Tablet Magazine, Blundering Into the Sukkah (September 17, 2021, mention)
Topic » Marek Web Memorial Event

The Forward, „נוסח ווילנע‟ הזכּרה: די כּמעט־פֿאַרגעסענע געטאָ־קעמפֿערינס (August 25, 2021)
Topic » Nusakh Vilne

The Algemeiner, ‘This is Unprecedented’: Leading Holocaust Experts Weigh in on Polish State’s Campaign to Rewrite History of World War II (August 24, 2021, mention)
Topic » Jewish News

New Jersey Jewish Standard, Yiddishist unearths Leonia’s history (August 18, 2021, mention)
Topic » Uriel Weinreich Summer Program / Fall Classes

Tablet Magazine, World of Our Stickers (August 13, 2021, mention)
Topic » Uriel Weinreich Summer Program / Fall Classes

Jewish Renaissance, The Workers’ Olympiad (Summer 2021)
Topic » The Yiddishists / YIVO Archives

The Forward, 70 years after U.N. convention, a new — and old — way to visualize refugee journeys (July 28, 2021, mention)
Topic » YIVO Archives

Hadassah Magazine, Yiddish Is Thriving in the Virtual World. (July 27, 2021, mention)
Topic » Yiddish

The Forward, The Yiddish professor and female Orthodox rabbi sharing Yiddish children’s literature with the world (July 20, 2021, mention, also in Yiddish)
Topic » Uriel Weinreich Summer Program / Yiddish Children’s Literature

Alma, I Felt Insecure In My Jewish Identity. Learning Yiddish Helped. (July 14, 2021, mention)
Topic » Yiddish

The Forward, אָנלײַן־שמועס מיט זינגערין מרים־חיה סגל (אויף ענגליש) (July 13, 2021)
Topic » YIVO Yiddish Club

Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage Magazine, Everyday People’s Troubles”: A Brif History of Yiddish Advice Radio in the United States (June 15, 2021)
Topic » YIVO Archives

Reboot, It’s Just Luck that I’m Making the Tea: What Would You Bring (June 13, 2021, mention)
Topic » YIVO Archives

Tablet Magazine, The Sounds of Summer (June 11, 2021, mention)
Topic » YIVO Yiddish Club

Jewish Women’s Archive, What Does Duolingo Mean for Yiddish? (June 8, 2021, mention)
Topic » Yiddish

The Forward, Symposium to explore rich world of Jewish children’s literature in pre-WWII Europe (June 8, 2021, also in Yiddish)
Topic » Jewish Children's Literature in Russian and Yiddish

The Forward, ווי וועט ייִדיש־דואָלינגאָ משפּיע זײַן אויפֿן ייִדיש־לימוד? (שמועס אויף ענגליש) (June 8, 2021)
Topic » YIVO Yiddish Club

Input, Duolingo’s new Yiddish course is a major moment for American Judaism (May 28, 2021, mention)
Topic » Yiddish

The Forward, סעריע לעקציעס בײַם ייִוואָ אָפֿן פֿאַרן ברייטן עולם (May 27, 2021)
Topic » Yiddish Civilization Lecture Series

Tablet Magazine, Spring Awakening (May 27, 2021)
Topic » Yiddish Civilization Lecture Series

The Forward, More than a century after her death, this woman writer is being celebrated (May 13, 2021)
Topic » Salomea Perl & Women Yiddish Prose Writers

The Forward, What the new Pew study missed by not asking about Yiddish (May 11, 2021, mention, also in Yiddish)
Topic » Yiddish

Cleveland Jewish News, Yiddish is Alive and Well (April 28, 2021, mention, also in Columbus Jewish News)
Topic » Yiddish

The Forward, ליטעראַרישער יום־טובֿ לכּבֿוד אַ לאַנג פֿאַרגעסענער שרײַבערין (April 26, 2021)
Topic » Salomea Perl & Women Yiddish Prose Writers

JTA, Rare ‘fortress synagogue’ to return to Jewish ownership in Lutsk, Ukraine (April 22, 2021, mention)
Topic » YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe

The Forward, קלאַסישער מוזיק אינספּירירט פֿון ייִדישע פֿאָלקסלידער (April 19, 2021)
Topic » Continuing Evolution 2: Yiddish Folksong in Classical Music

Jewish Standard, Finding his voice in Yiddish song (April 14, 2021)
Topic » Continuing Evolution 2: Yiddish Folksong in Classical Music

Tablet Magazine, Ladino and Yiddish Classes Boom Online (April 12, 2021, mention)
Topic » Yiddish

The Forward, קאַרנעגי־האָל־קאָנצערט: לידער געהערט פֿון דער שארית־הפּליטה (April 7, 2020)
Topic » Cry, My Heart, Cry: Songs from Testimonies in the Fortunoff Video Archive, Vol. 2

The Jewish Standard, Who’s your mamaloshen? (April 7, 2021, mention)
Topic » Yiddish

NBC News, Duolingo adds Yiddish to its language lessons (April 6, 2021, mention)
Topic » Yiddish

Kveller, Yiddish Classes Are Now Available on Duolingo! (April 5, 2021, mention)
Topic » Yiddish

JTA, How Duolingo created a Yiddish course with a secular scholar and Hasidic Jews from Brooklyn (April 1, 2021, mention, picked up by Jweekly and Intermountain Jewish News)
Topic » Yiddish

Jewish Renaissance, Gulliver in Yiddishland (April 2021)
Topic » The Yiddishists / YIVO Archives

Archival Outlook, UN/YIVO Exhibition on Displaced Persons (March-April)
Topic » After the End of the World: Displaced Persons and Displaced Persons Camps

Smithsonian Voices, How the Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Girl Inspired an Exhibition (March 18, 2021)
Topic » YIVO Bruce and Francesca Cernia Slovin Online Museum

The Forward, “ייִוואָ לאַנצירט אומפֿאָרמעלן „ייִדיש־קלוב (February 22, 2020)
Topic » YIVO Yiddish Club

Kveller, Mandy Patinkin’s Yiddish Version of ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’ Is Everything (February 18, 2021, mention)
Topic » Yiddish

In Geveb, Loz dos folk nor vern kliger, Let the People Then Become Smarter: Students Discuss Learning Yiddish during the COVID-19 Pandemic (February 17, 2021)
Topic » Yiddish

The Times of Israel, Holocaust Historian Issues A Warning (February 17, 2021, also on Sheldon Kirshner Journal)
Topic » Holocaust Scholarship on Trial

The Canadian Press, Holocaust Historian Issues A Warning (February 16, 2021, picked up by The Chronicle Journal, The Penticton Herald, 680 New, The Star, and more)
Topic » Holocaust Scholarship on Trial

The Algemeiner, Polish Government’s Campaign to Control Holocaust Research Set to Continue, Warns Jan Grabowski, Historian at Center of Major Libel Trial (February 16, 2021, picked up by World Jewish News)
Topic » Holocaust Scholarship on Trial

NBC, With Anti-Semitic Attacks Surging, the Writing of a Fifth-Grader in Prewar Poland Teaches Tolerance (February 14, 2021, also picked up Combat Anti-Semitism)
Topic » YIVO Bruce and Francesca Cernia Slovin Online Museum

Tablet Magazine, Let’s Fall in ‘Libe’ (February 11, 2021, mention)
Topic » Yiddish Club

In Geveb, Yiddish in ale lender! Yiddish Summer Programs Roundup 2021 (February 11, 2021, mention)
Topic » Uriel Weinreich Summer Program

The Conversation, 5 Websites To Help Educate About The Horrors Of The Holocaust (January 27, 2021, picked up by Salon, Yahoo News, The World, Patch, Pennsylvania Capital Star, Times Union, Quick and Dirty Tips, Baptist News Global, Legal News, Interaksyon)
Topic » YIVO Bruce and Francesca Cernia Slovin Online Museum

The Forward, צום ערשטן מאָל וועט ייִוואָ־זומער־פּראָגראַם לערנען ייִדיש אויף זעקס ניוואָען (January 26, 2020)
Topic » Uriel Weinreich Summer Program

The New York Times, What to Cook this Week (January 24, 2021, mention)
Topic » YIVO Archives

Jewish Renaissance, The Legend of the Golem (January 2021)
Topic » The Yiddishists / YIVO Archives

Jewish Renaissance, Solihull Pupils Meet Beba, A Schoolgirl in Wartime Vilna (January 2021)
Topic » YIVO Bruce and Francesca Cernia Slovin Online Museum

Jerusalem Post, COVID-19: Jewish orgs launch platform studying plagues in Jewish history (January 19, 2021, mention)
Topics » Share Your Story Archival Initiative

Crescas, Kunst en cultuur (January 14, 2021)
Topic » YIVO Bruce and Francesca Cernia Slovin Online Museum

Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage Magazine, The Life and Death of a Yiddish Puppet Theater (January 12, 2021)
Topic » YIVO Archives

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