Yiddish
Soul to Soul combines music from both Black and Jewish sources in one show. (Photo provided by National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene)
February 6, 2024, 9:24 am
Beth Shalom Congregation celebrates Black History Month with ‘Soul to Soul’
“When things are sad, we sing. When things are joyous, we sing. The commonality is what we’re trying to stress here,” she said.
By David Rullo
A recent performance by Canadian rapper SoCalled had Andrew Silow-Carroll thinking of Yiddish. Photo by Mário Pires courtesy of flickr.com.
July 20, 2022, 4:35 pm
How I learned to stop kvetching and love the Yiddish revival
The pandemic was very good for Yiddish.
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
The author had a "tucky" encounter at a Cracker Barrel restaurant while traveling. (Dave Stone, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons)
January 26, 2022, 11:58 am
Resurrecting ‘tucky’
No one seemed to know what "tucky" meant — it was just a great word to use for emphasis.
By Josh L. Sivitz
"Jeopardy!" contestant Ed Hashima smiles as he listens to host Mayim Bialik read a question in the Yiddish Theater category in the episode that aired Dec. 9, 2021. (Screenshot from show)
December 11, 2021, 10:38 pm
Yiddish theater debuts as a category on ‘Jeopardy!’
It makes one knowledgable contestant a rich(er) man
By Philissa Cramer
Screenshot from Duolingo’s new Yiddish app
April 14, 2021, 10:31 am
A legacy language
Yiddish is one of several fading dialects Duolingo has added to its course catalog in recent years.
By Manya Brachear Pashman
Oliver Elkus
September 9, 2020, 6:36 pm
Yiddish is a connection to our past
"I believe if we understand Yiddish, we understand our past and, without exaggeration, we understand ourselves."
By Oliver Elkus
Yiddish song 'Eli Eli' first became popular in the 1920s. (Design by Arielle Kaplan/ JTA)
June 24, 2020, 2:57 pm
How this iconic Yiddish song became an anthem for Black Americans
"Eli Eli" gained popularity in 1917
By Arielle Kaplan
South Hills congregations have a history of collaboration--this photo was taken from Temple Emanuel and Beth El's Purim celebration in 2018. Photo by Rob Goodman
March 4, 2020, 12:21 pm
Pittsburgh pulses to the rhythm of Purim shpiels
The community recounts the Purim story in the city and neighboring suburbs
By David Rullo
(In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty Images)
February 20, 2020, 10:31 am
From ‘bialy’ to ‘Jew York,’ OED adds dozens of Jewish-themed words and phrases
Some entries seen as anti-Semitic
By Gabe Friedman JTA
October 10, 2019, 5:40 pm
Yiddish: The secret handshake
Remembering a rich culture
By Stacia Friedman
The actors from the Pittsburgh Public Theater read excerpts from “Indecent.” (Photo by Toby Tabachnick)
February 15, 2019, 10:00 am
One hundred years later, Yiddish play still relevant to Jewish Pittsburgh
'Indecent' is the story of the life of the Jewish playwright and the actors who dared to break with the artistic mores of the American stage of the 1920s.
By Toby Tabachnick
Alexandra Straytner and Zachary Levine took the course with their dog, Jofi. (Photo by Josefin Dolsten)
October 12, 2018, 12:42 pm
Want to teach your dog Yiddish? There’s a class for that
In Central Park that weekend, about 20 people could be seen and heard pointing at the ground while yelling “zits” and “shtai” and urging their dogs to “shpring” over hurdles.
By Josefin Dolsten JTA
Miranda Cooper, 23, from Fox Chapel, is a fellow at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Mass. The center is working to preserve Yiddish culture and heritage. (Photo by Ben Barnhart, courtesy of the Yiddish Book Center)
October 27, 2017, 3:19 pm
The power of Yiddish comes alive for this Pittsburgh native
The 23-year old from Fox Chapel is a fellow in Massachusetts working to translate Yiddish texts and bring more attention to the language.
By Hilary Daninhirsch
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