Wrote a short piece on this, starting from a Forward article. Moshe Leyb Pitshenik finished a Yiddish Odyssey in 1937 (it won the Yiddish PEN Club prize), and for the famous first-line epithet, the "man of many turns," he went with farvoglt. Lost, far from home. A few lines later Odysseus survives a khurbn.

He was murdered outside Kazimierz in 1941. The piece puts him next to Moshe Ha-Elion, an Auschwitz survivor who translated the Odyssey into Ladino at 90.

https://theunplayednote.com/en/the-finger-that-kept-the-beat/?src=rd5

Has anyone here seen the Pitshenik translation itself? Curious whether it was ever reprinted or digitized.

These two album covers are based on the same photo, and I know it exists but I cant find it, if anyone knows anything pls help

Hi,
I’m going through my father’s family papers and came across some letters that I believe are Yiddish. Can anyone here help me translate them? They are copies from letters I believe from 1938.
Thank you

hello, my grandma used to sing this song to me every night when i went to bed.
i am not sure what it means nor how to find it.
it goes like this (i am trying to write in english lol):

bayo bayo meidale
ade coifen hoifen sheiny kleidale
shluf shluf shingele
ade coifen hoifen sheiny kleidale
kleidale

does anyone know the whole lyrics or has a youtube link where i could listen to it?
tysm

Temple Beth Am is doing a Yiddish Arts & Culture series this year! November 18th, join us for a screening of the documentary "Yiddish Theater: A Love Story."

The film follows Holocaust survivor Zypora Spaisman who maintains the oldest Yiddish Theater in America and devotes her life to maintaining traditional Yiddish art.

Movie refreshments will be provided!

Get Tickets here

Yiddish Theater: A Love Story is presented with support from the Yiddish Book Center's Yiddish Arts and Culture Initiative for Jewish Communities, funded by Debbie Mitzner and Wayne Miller in memory of Iris Mitzner.

The Brooklyn Public library thankfully has many Yiddish books but overwhelmingly of the chasidish variety. This makes sense considering that clientele consists of a vast majority of Brooklyn Yiddish readers but it is disappointing that there's not one Sholem Aleichem, Peretz or Moykher Sforim book available. There are a few secular books but largely by obscure authors.

Surprisingly Queens public library has a few classics and Brooklyn should follow suit. Most of these books are available digitally on the yiddish book center but nothing compares to reading the physical book.

Does anyone know of any methods of requesting books for the library? Either way I just wanted a vent a bit.

Found some old letter from my great grandfather (1903). His life was an exiting mystery and reads like a india jones story. Not sure if this is connected to him directly but i believe its yiddish. Apologies if not.

Hello, I really like the Yiddish language. I love the script and the way it sounds. It seems incredibly fun to learn. I am still unsure whether I should learn Yiddish or not. I don't want to be a bother about this but if someone can, can you please give me some advice on this or tell me what I could learn first.

I have a bit of an advantage from what I've heard: I speak Polish fluently and I have a basic understanding of Dutch as I'm still learning. I would love to know if I should start learning and if so if there are any resources I could use.

Any advice will be extremely helpful. Thank you very much.

מיין נאָמען איז עדי, איך וואוין אין ישראל, איך וועל באַלד גיין לערנען אין אַ ישיבה און איך וויל פּראַקטיצירן יידיש מיט עמעצן, איז דאָ עמעצער פֿון ישראל?

My late Mom was German, but also spoke some Yiddish with my Dad’s parents. And whenever something was confused or screwed up, I remember her saying “ach it‘s all tsablunget!”

But when I’ve tried to find that word via Google, all that comes up is FARblunget. Not TSAblunget.

Anyone happen to know if there are two variations of the word, and if I’m spelling it correctly? TIA

Hello, I am looking for a volunteer to read and translate a handwritten Yiddish postcard sent from Lipno, Poland, probably 1930s, to my family (Koral/Coral). I only want to know the names, places and relations it mentions. A rough translation is welcome. https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM115621 Thank you very much. Alon Coral

a .mobi or .prc files

A photo taken in 1922 of the ‘Henry Street Shul’ synagogue (now Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Cathedral) 25 year anniversary photo. In this photo, is a white banner with Yiddish cursive, and the second photo is my best recreation of the banner.

It seems quite different from traditional spelling. I think it was developed to remove certain Hebrew and German orthographic influences from Yiddish, but I wonder how common it is today.

איך קען אַ פּאָר מענטשן וואָס רעדן ייִדיש און וווינען אין אָדער שטאַמען פֿון דער שווײַץ? צי עקסיסטירט יאָ אַ קהילה פֿון ייִדיש רעדערס אין דער שווײַץ? צי איז דאָס רובֿ פֿרום אָדער ניין?

Trying to identify a song from a 1940s–50s family home recording. Sung in German or possibly Yiddish, brisk folk tune in 2/4. First line seems to contain “Kinder” and maybe “leben” or “Knaben.” A later line repeats a phrase that sounds like “so leben wir, so leben wir.” Phrase lengths of roughly 7, 6, 7, 7 syllables, then a longer line. Any ideas?