Poetry and music to start the new year
Chava Lapin, who died last month, believed that Yiddish couldn’t be separated from the culture of its speakers
Pioneering folk music collector Ruth Rubin and the archives of ‘Sing Out!’ magazine
What to listen to this month while celebrating Pride
From opera to cabaret to electronic music and, yes, klezmer
A new book shines a light on Yiddish-oriented programs
A new Netflix series’s spin on the ‘shadkhn’
A Judy Blume movie and a new one-woman show speak to the children of intermarriage
The enduring power of Rivke Basman Ben-Hayim’s words
A Passover celebration makes its own kind of noise, whether it comes from a superstar cantor, a jumble of tone-deaf relatives, or Eugene Levy
How the humble chicken became an integral part of Jewish life
Postwar issues of a Yiddish journal for children brought the history of Purim to the present
Yiddish tales of romance and magic
Rokhl’s Golden City: The Yiddish past, present, and future of Vilnius
Rokhl’s Golden City: Two tales of Jewish immigration on film
Rokhl’s Golden City: Poet Irena Klepfisz has carved out a literary world between languages and subcultures
Rokhl’s Golden City: Angela Lansbury’s forgotten 1996 made-for-television movie ‘Mrs. Santa Claus’ is a big, gay, pro-union holiday extravaganza
Rokhl’s Golden City: Vocalist Adrienne Cooper united the fractious Yiddish world