Helix participants sang yiddish, and on occasion belarusian, songs everywhere on the bus to pass the time, but also in town. Helix is the opportunity for students and scholars to explore historical borderlands through the lens of jewish and intercultural creativity. Featured helix project yiddish culture yiddishkayt. The helix in the yiddish forward yiddishkayt hq 5 september 2015 december 14th, 2018 from ojai to a vilna goodbye, 2015 helixer and journalist for the forverts, itsik bleaman, reports on the peregrinations of this years helix project.
Steiner summer yiddish program, yiddish book center amherst, massachusetts, usa. The steven spielberg digital yiddish library includes more than 11,000 yiddish titles available to read online or download free of charge. The amazing adventures of a man who rescued a million yiddish books lansky, aaron on. Approximately 40,000 volumes are in yiddish, making the yivo library the largest collection of yiddish. We are two phd candidates seeking a senior scholar to join our interdisciplinary panel on jewish life in poland under communism 19481989. Helix instructor and scholar of yiddish culture, mandy cohen reflects on the frontiers of a divided world after the 2014 helix project investigate yiddish discover life. Alana fichman, steiner summer yiddish program student, was interviewed by christa whitney on july 24th, 2014 at the yiddish book center. Im flirting with the idea of starting a yiddish book club ive never read a book along with others and liked the experience, so it may only have one member. Helix transforms jewish historybringing students to the historical heartland of european jewish life to expl check out the helix project on indiegogo. A growing collection of indepth interviews with people of all ages and backgrounds, whose stories about the legacy and changing nature of yiddish language and culture offer a rich and complex chronicle of jewish identity. For the past three years, mindl has taught the intensive beginning yiddish language course at uc berkeley. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading outwitting history. The project is particularly interested in how yiddish language and culture inform jewish.
The yiddish radio project is based on a series of stories featured on nprs all things considered in the spring of 2002. Yiddish language students and writers of all ages can now enjoy using the first exclusively yiddish notebook. The yiddish radio project is the soundtrack companion cd for the upcoming 10 part npr radio series celebrating the golden age of yiddish radio in america 19301955. This period represents a complex period for jewish people and institutions in postwar poland, a time in which the polish state and the polish jewish community were being rebuilt simultaneously, but also in tension with one another. The amazing adventures of a man who rescued a million yiddish books kindle edition by lansky, aaron. Helix teaches that no culture or history can be understood without its local context. The helix fellowship uses old maps, directions from townsfolk, our collective language skills, and flour generously lent by local households to help decode the gravestones we find.
Also, in this oral history from the wexler oral history project, alana fichman discusses her experiences in the helix project. Christa whitney director of the wexler oral history project at the yiddish book center. Wexler oral history project of the yiddish book center. Yiddish scholar, yiddishkayts education director, and helix project leader discusses the historical idea of doikayt being rooted to the here and now of life in the diaspora and connected to. My book, born to kvetch, has sold more copies than any other book about yiddish. His most recent book is the awardwinning through soviet jewish eyes. Amazing images from the helix project s pilot summer tracing the history of jewish life and culture in lite poland, belarus, and lithuania. Yiddish scholar, yiddishkayts education director, and helix project leader discusses the historical idea of doikayt being rooted to the here.
Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. The yiddish project is a company that publishes yiddish educational materials that are used worldwide by students of yiddish. He also created and runs the helix project, a travelbased immersion in european jewish cultural history. In yiddish, the song is called di shvue the oath, written by the famous. To honor that history, here is a video of the helix students singing the anthem of the bund in the jewish cemetery. He served as the director of education at the national yiddish book center, where he was translation editor of pakntreger magazine and created the steiner summer program in yiddish studies. Get the best deals on yiddish book when you shop the largest online selection at. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. I am a writer and translator who specializes in yiddish. Who will remain, what will remain helix in smorgon youtube. The yiddish book centers wexler oral history project is a growing collection of indepth interviews about.
Since 2010, the yiddish book centers wexler oral history project has recorded more than 500 indepth video interviews that provide a deeper understanding of the jewish experience and the legacy and changing nature of yiddish. The yiddish book center national yiddish book center, located on the campus of hampshire college in amherst, massachusetts, united states, is a cultural institution dedicated to the preservation of books in the yiddish language, as well as the culture and history those books represent. A collection of audio books, recorded programs and multimedia resources from the yiddish book center. I am a writer and translator who specializes in yiddish language and culture. Singer endowed chair in jewish history and professor of history, religious studies and jewish studies, had a busy summer of globetrotting.
The series highlights the golden age of yiddish american broadcasting in the 1930s to 50s. Erin faigin, reflections on space in learning yiddish, in geveb, december 22, 2015. The yiddish book centers wexler oral history project is a growing collection of indepth video interviews with people of all ages, exploring yiddish cultural topics and issues of modern jewish identity. Helixers travel through the white russian countryside, outside of smorgon, the birthplace of yiddish poet avrom sutzkever and listen to the poet himself read his poem ver vet blaybn who will. The yiddish book center is a nonprofit organization that works to tell the whole jewish story by rescuing, translating, and disseminating yiddish books and p. Free shipping on many items browse your favorite brands. The yiddish book centers wexler oral history project is a. Program for students, artists and educators online.
Wallis annenberg helix program, a project of yiddishkayt, a yiddish. Beginning with the centers 40th anniversary in 2020, and continuing for each of the next ten years, the center will select an annual theme. The decade of discovery is a new initiative of the yiddish book center designed to foster a deeper understanding of yiddish and modern jewish culture. Yivo preserves manuscripts, rare books, and diaries, and other yiddish sources. He served as scholarinresidence for the helix project that took students to belarus, lithuania, and latvia. Now featuring selections from the frances brandt online yiddish audio library and the sami rohr library of recorded yiddish books, produced by the yiddish book center in cooperation with the. However, helix is a cultural history program, not a language intensive. Yivobard uriel weinreich summer program in yiddish language, literature, and culture new york, new york, usa. David shneer program in jewish studies university of. Steiner summer yiddish program, yiddish book center amherst. The joys of yiddish leo rosten 1968 hc dj lexicon hebrew yinglish jewish rare. The experience and impact of the helix project watch now. In its heyday yiddish radio was heard from coast to coast, with a dozen stations in new york alone. Wexler oral history project of the yiddish book center, amherst, massachusetts.
She has also taught beginning yiddish for lehrhaus judaica in the bay area and directs yiddishkayts helix project. Explore our digital yiddish library of more than 11,000 titles, and our diverse collections, including contemporary oral histories, lectures, yiddish audiobooks, and more. Helix project making the jewish past present youtube. A friendship that changed our minds hardcover december 6, 2016. The homepage of yiddishkayt where the jewish past becomes present.
Alana fichman, 2014 yiddish book centers steiner summer yiddish program. Yiddish radio project music from the yiddish radio. Since 2010, the yiddish book centers wexler oral history project has recorded more than 500 indepth video interviews that provide a deeper understanding of the jewish experience and the legacy and changing nature of yiddish language and culture. Helix programming deals with yiddish and other regional languages, depending on the interests and backgrounds of each unique cohort. The yivo library in new york contains over 385,000 volumes dating from as early as the 16th century. Its name refers to the cultural concept of yiddishkayt, yiddish culture, literally jewishness or yiddishness, which the american jewish critic irving howe described not in. Make offer sefer pabianice yizkor book yiddish hebrew pabyanits.
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