UPDATE UPDATE (second update) According to a tweet from the Director of Digital Strategy at WNET/Channel 13, the Yiddish "quiz" i...

Purim sameakh/ a freylikhn purim, y'all. What are you doing reading this? Shouldn't you be pounding shots in a dark room in a terrib...

Dear PBS, When your website content is almost indistinguishable from that of Heeb, it's probably time to stop farming out your website...

From my friend Daniel Kahn , a dark and funny new video for Love Lays Low , off his newest CD with the Painted Bird, Bad Old Songs . . ...

The Washington Post brings us an interesting chart from the Pew Research Center. The chart tracks language presence in the United States fr...

Yiddish Murder Ballads Another terrific post from Itzik Gottesman's Yiddish Song of the Week . This one features a recording of Leah (...

A rare Yiddish-only, evening program at YIVO, this Thursday at 7. Not to be missed.  Dr. Michael Steinlauf (Gratz College) will be speakin...

You know no one love/hates talking 'identity' more than I do. So I was thrilled to find out today that I was invited to take part in...

Gevaldik... And just because we're talking about shit I love, of course, there's this:

A friend alerted me to this the other day: It’s an Israeli group called Kleibedik (it's a pun on Klezmer and leybedik [lively]...