דער קערפער פֿון השם2h ago

Kind of sad about Hampshire closing. I went to UMass.

"#HampshireCollege, the nontraditional #liberalarts #school that pioneered #college-level #Holocaust classes and played a central role in launching the acclaimed #Yiddish #Book Center, announced Tuesday that it is shutter at the end of the calendar year.

The closure, which follows semester after years of financial troubles, won’t affect #YiddishBookCenter, which operates on land purchased from the college in #Amherst, #Massachusetts.

“We are saddened by #Hampshire College’s announcement,” Susan Bronson, president of the Yiddish Book Center, said in a statement. “Hampshire has been a valued neighbor for many years, and we recognize the significance of this moment for its community.”

Founded by Hampshire alum #AaronLansky in 1980 as an effort to save Yiddish-language publications from extinction, the Yiddish Book Center purchased the land for its permanent #campus space from the college in 1997."

https://www.jta.org/2026/04/14/united-states/hampshire-college-incubator-of-yiddish-book-center-and-a-holocaust-studies-pioneer-to-close

Hampshire College, incubator of Yiddish Book Center and a Holocaust-studies pioneer, to close

The Yiddish Book Center's founder, Aaron Lansky, graduated from Hampshire in 1973.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency
🕵️old klezmers🎻6h ago

A new champion has entered the Yiddish music AI slop arena 🕵️‍♂️🤖
https://www.instagram.com/valery.bek
Facebook group currently divided between Russians+Israelis who are tearfully saying how beautiful and Americans+Germans who are arguing whether the music is AI slop or only the video

#AIslop #Yiddish #JewishMusic

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🕵️old klezmers🎻8h ago

I'm teaching this workshop here in Vancouver on May 10 with my friend Chaia if you're interested. the same songs we explained online for Workers Circle a few months ago, but this time teaching people to sing them in person.
https://www.peretz-centre.org/event-details-registration/revolutionary-yiddish-singalong-chaia-dan

#Yiddish #Bundism #1905revolution #JewishMusic #Vancouver #SongWorkshop

Revolutionary Yiddish Singalong | Peretz Centre

DJ Chaia and Dan Carkner present a sing-along introducing anti-authoritarian Jewish folk songs that are as relevant today as they were 120 years ago!

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Yiddish Song Of The Day10h ago

אַידיש ליד יעדען טאָג: ״די געשרײַ פֿון די װילדע קאָטשקע״ אַױפֿגעפֿירט אַױפֿגעפֿירט פֿון מיקי קאַץ

Yiddish Song of the Day: "The Scream of the Wild Duck" performed by Mickey Katz #Yiddish #YiddishSongoftheDay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liGHgwey550

GESHRAY OF DeVILDE KOTCHKE by Mickey Katz (Yiddish parody)

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Show threadⒶ Consciousness Revolutions 🏴1d ago
Here is that statement in the original #Yiddish (as published in "The Forward" on September 12, 1944) —
Yiddish Song Of The Day1d ago

אַידיש ליד יעדען טאָג: ״לופֿט אַומגליק אַין לאָס גאַטאָס״ ליד ינ ענגליש, אַידיש אַון עספּאַנאָל אַױפֿגעפֿירט פֿון די קלעזמאַיקס

Yiddish Song of the Day: "Plane Wreck at Los Gatos" song in English, Yiddish and Spanish, performed by the Klezmatics #Yiddish #YiddishSongoftheDay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP6sO69Y97g

The Klezmatics - Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee) featuring Sofia Rei

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The Song Remains2d ago

Like a Young Doe

Like a young doe you ran off to the hills / to gather the scattered gold of summer. / Then tall grasses even wept at your feet, / and hills gulped their fill of gloom.

https://thesongremains.org/shudrikh/like-a-young-doe/

#yiddish #poetry

Like a Young Doe - The Song Remains - דאָס ליד איז געבליבן

Like a young doe you ran off to the hills / to gather the scattered gold of summer. / Then tall grasses even wept at your feet, / and hills gulped their fill of gloom.

The Song Remains - דאָס ליד איז געבליבן - An anthology of Yiddish poems with English translations from the Nazi German occupation of Poland
Yiddish Song Of The Day2d ago

אַידיש ליד יעדען טאָג: ״ספּאָדיק״ אַױפֿגעפֿירט פֿון שיעה געפֿען אַון יואָלי קלײַן

Yiddish Song of the Day: "Spodek" performed by Shia Gefen, Yoely Klein and Shaya Gross #Yiddish #YiddishSongoftheDay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur6aMc9XOrg

Spodik - Shia Gefen, Yoely Klein & Shaya Gross | ספאדיק - יושע גפן, יואלי קליין & ישעי' גראס

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🕵️old klezmers🎻4d ago

sadly I won't be going (don't trust ICE) but this festival in #Portland looks great.
includes some good friends of mine like Chaia, Christina Crowder, Shpilkis, and some cool artists I hadn't heard of before.
https://collections.humanitix.com/the-portland-jewish-music-festival-2026

#PortlandOR #Klezmer #Yiddish #JewishMusic #MusicFestival

The Portland Jewish Music Festival 2026 | Humanitix

A Message from Festival Director Eric SternWe are thrilled to announce the Portland Jewish Music Festival 2026! Now in its second year, this celebration of Jewish musical traditions from throughout the diaspora and Israel will fill EJC for more than a week with top-tier artists from near and far. We are especially delighted to host one of the most famous Mizrachi musicians in the world – Yair Dalal – as a festival headliner.The Portland Jewish Music Festival was born last year when local folk music organization Bubbaville, (producer of the Portland Klezmer Festival for several years prior), passed the event’s torch to EJC as its natural home. As curator of the festival, I extended it to last a week and added Sephardic and Mizrachi music to the scope to present a broader and more inclusive vision of global Jewish artistry.. The Portland Jewish Music Festival became a multicultural event showcasing folk music from Spain, Northern Africa and Iraq, as well as Yiddish and Klezmer music.The Portland Jewish Music Festival is quickly becoming not only a tentpole of EJC and local Jewish programming, but also a highlight of the region’s cultural calendar, period. We can’t wait to share these 11 days and nights of concerts, discussions and community joy with you!CHECK OUT ALL OF THE EVENTS IN THIS COLLECTION!

Show threadDonald RoyApr 7

@BlueWaver22

This has to be true. It would be comparable to the largely successful attempt to wipe out the #ashkenazi / #yiddish civilisation of #easterneurope in the 1940s.