Celebrating Yiddish Music, Language, and Culture!
The Yiddish Forward writes about Binyumen Schaechter’s YNY class on Ashkenazic surnames – read the article (in Yiddish) at this link: https://forward.com/yiddish/460256/lectures-in-yiddish-on-jewish-surnames/
For more information about the class, see YNY’s Detailed Program Guide.
YNY is a pick in this week’s Jewish Week. Read all about it here: https://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/yiddish-festivals-matisyahu-brisket-mrs-maisel-all-the-jewish-events-in-nyc/
YNY Theater Faculty Maddy Popkin (Boston Worker’s Circle) was recently interviewed by radio host Randee Mia Berman on the show Mia’s World (distributed by City World Radio). You can listen to Maddy & Mia at 19:07 by clicking here.
YNY Yiddish scholar Dovid Braun, who also serves as President of the Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center, and YNY Organizing Committee member Josh Waletzky were recently interviewed in Yiddish on The Yiddish Voice – Dos Yidishe Kol radio program. It aired Wed Dec 11 at 7:30pm on WUNR (Boston) 1600AM “The Yiddish Voice – Dos Yidishe Kol.” In the interview Braun and Waletzky discusses YNY in general, and Braun additionally provides focus on his lecture series on Yiddish dialects, as well as the Dec 15 Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center presentation by Miryem-Khaye Seigel, and the Center’s campaign to raise money for a new roof. Click the following link to listen: https://the-yiddish-voice-podcast.zencast.website/episodes/191
Dos Yidishe Kol radio program. It aired Wed Dec 11 at 7:30pm on WUNR (Boston) 1600AM “The Yiddish Voice – Dos Yidishe Kol.” In the interview Braun and Waletzky discusses YNY in general, and Braun additional provides focus on his lecture series on Yiddish dialects, as well as the Dec 15 Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center presentation by Miryem-Khaye Seigel, and the Center’s campaign to raise money for a new roof. Click the following link to listen: https://the-yiddish-voice-podcast.zencast.website/episodes/191
YNY’s 2019 Festival official press release is available here – please help us get out the word!: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zoTntGrhGI9noFoHBYNnlTZ-uHr-zhYH5vFGUREBP0E/edit?usp=sharing