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Yiddish

Book Review: “From a Distant Relation” — Drowning in Yiddish

What is evident throughout these superb tales of turn-of-century shtetl life is their authenticity.

By: Joann Green Breuer Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: From a Distant Relation, Joann Green Breuer, Mikhah Yosef Berdichevsky, shtetl, Yiddish

Film Review: “Demon” — A Beautifully Creepy Dybbuk Yarn

Demon is a powerful movie that, once seen, can’t be easily shaken off.

By: Betsy Sherman Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Demon, dybbuk, Itay Tiran, jewish folklore, Marcin Wrona, Yiddish

Book Review: Poet/Essayist Richard J. Fein — Yiddish as Mother Tongue and Lost Lover

“The Beginning-End of Yiddish,” is poet/essayist Richard Fein’s core subject: his love for a language largely eviscerated in his lifetime.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: BrickHouse Books, Poetry, Richard Fein, Susan de Sola Rodstein, Yiddish, Yiddish Genesis

Book Interview: Novelist and Short-Story Writer Nathan Englander Is Happy to Go Back to Basics

Nathan Englander’s first play, “The Twenty-Seventh Man,” opens at the Public Theater in New York tonight. Fuse Editor Bill Marx spoke to the acclaimed, best-selling writer about the script and the production when Englander visited Wellesley College recently.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview Tagged: Barry Edelstein, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, Nathan Englander, The Ministry of Special Cases, The Public Theater, The Twenty-seventh Man, Wellesley College, What We Talk about When We Talk About Anne Frank, Yiddish

Music Feature: Follow the Lieder — Discovering Lazar Weiner’s Yiddish Art Song

When the Boston Jewish Music Festival presented a special afternoon of Lazar Weiner’s Yiddish Art Songs, it became clear that it’s time for a reappraisal that will bring these small, intense gems back into broader musical circulation.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Featured, Music, World Music Tagged: art song, Jewish music, Lazar Weiner, Yehudi Wyner, Yiddish

Film Review: Those Cuddly and Krazy Klezmatics

The documentary “The Klezmatics: On Holy Ground” is pleasing to watch, but there are a number of ways of respecting as well as loving great artists, the most important being coming up with the chutzpah necessary to ask the tough questions that generate illuminating, inspiring, or interesting answers.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Film Tagged: documentary, Klezmatics, klezmer, Yiddish, Yiddish music

Culture Vulture and Mrs. Goldberg

by Helen Epstein Go here for information about a live-chat, scheduled for August 23rd, with Helen Epstein on “The Art of Narrative Writing.” If you’re at all interested in popular culture, don’t miss Aviva Kempner’s new documentary “Yoo-Hoo Mrs. Goldberg.” Kempner is the D.C.-based director of the award-winning documentary “Life and Times of Hank Greenberg” […]

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Featured, Television Tagged: Aviva Kempner, Coolidge Corner Theater, Culture Vulture, documentary, Film, Gertrude Berg, Jewish, Yiddish, Yoo-Hoo Mrs. Goldberg

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