catching up on this interesting #YIVO lecture by Jeffrey Veidlinger from a few days ago. it's drawing on oral history of #Yiddish speakers done by him, Dov Ber Kerler and others in an NEH funded project in the early 2000s. In this lecture he focuses on memories of life in the Soviet Shtetls around Ukraine. Quite interesting. I was actually just reading Veidlinger's older book Jewish Public Culture in the Late Russian Empire on my camping trip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WuKamaNBcc
#yiddish
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New Yorkers are faced with a tough choice for their mayor: Rapist or not rapist? Helping billionaires or helping people with no money? Asshole who accuses Jewish candidate of anti-semitism who gets cursed out in Yiddish, or nice man endorsed by Jewish candidate? Tough. Tough. #uspol #jewish #yiddish #newyork #DontRankCuomo https://www.jta.org/2025/04/02/politics/brad-lander-just-cursed-andrew-cuomo-in-yiddish
Jewish Telegraphic Agency · Brad Lander just cursed Andrew Cuomo in Yiddish, as NYC mayoral race intensifies
**10 Yiddish Curses You Wouldn't Wish on Your Worst Enemy**
https://aish.com/10-yiddish-curses-you-wouldnt-wish-on-your-worst-enemy/.
Aish.com · 10 Yiddish Curses You Wouldn't Wish on Your Worst Enemy | AishTen wickedly clever Yiddish curses—hilarious, biting, and too good to use (almost).
think it's time I made an #Introduction
I'm Orthodox #Jewish tho in my small local community it can be hard to find friends bc I'm also a #Leftist #AntiNationalist. I play #Violin; currently: translations of songs with themes of #Anarchy & #WorkingClass #Solidarity. influenced by #Klezmer, #Celtic & #Folk #Music. I work in a community #Ceramics studio & study #IMLS (Info Management & #LibraryScience) / #GLAM (Galleries Libraries #Archives Museums), & #Yiddish culture/history of #EasternEurope.
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fwiw here is a google drive with my snapshots from my visit. hoping they can be sorted and scanned so I can take a better look another time.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1izt_qYPgVNT6rI-5Aiqzp2S03ICX84Gi?usp=drive_link
Google DriveMontreal Arbeter ring choir snapshots (held by Josh Dolgin) – Google Drive
It just looks like a mess of paper, but.. while I was in Montreal Josh Dolgin (Socalled) invited me to his office at McGill to look at the boxes of Yiddish choral music which were discarded after the sale of the former Arbeter Ring (Workers Circle) building. It's about 3 big boxes with many duplicates so he's still trying to match parts together and make sense of what is in there.
The Holocaust and scripts in Europe: writing on the wall? https://www.byteseu.com/933061/ #Europe #Holocaust #JewishHeritage #language #script #Yiddish
Nothing helpful to my research in it, sadly, but a truly splendid cover for this Coat Makers Union anniversary journal from 1937. From the YIVO collection.
Plutôt que d'écrire des choses un peu limites à cause d'un combo fatigue + lassitude, je fais un petit fil sur le #yiddish :
Le yiddish s'écrit en caractères hébraïques (ça n'a pas été uniforme au cours de l'histoire et l'évolution actuelle l'infléchit un peu, mais disons que tout le monde va a priori considérer que c'est la manière normale d'écrire).
Il y a une particularité, c'est que certains noms sont écrits comme en hébreu, c'est-à-dire sans les voyelles, alors que tous les autres mots sont écrits avec tous leurs sons. En gros, une fois qu'on a appris les lettres de l'alphabet, on sait lire (presque tout).
Today in Labor History February 15, 1910: The ILGWU declared the Uprising of Twenty Thousand shirtwaist strike officially over. The garment workers strike began September 27, 1909, in response to abysmal wages and safety conditions. The majority of striking workers were immigrant women, mostly Yiddish-speaking Jews (75%) and Italians (10%), and mostly under the age of 20. Five women died in the strike, which the union won, signing contracts with 339 manufacturing firms. However, 13 firms, including Triangle Shirtwaist Company, never settled. One of the demands had been for adequate fire escapes and for open doors to the streets for emergencies. In 1911, 146 girls and women were killed in the Triangle Shirtwaist fire.
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reinstalling Yiddish Pasekh keyboard now does nothing.
halp!
On Sunday I will sing two recitals, one in the morning in #Detmold, and one in the evening in #Darmstadt.
The morning recital will be in the Landestheater Detmold with pianist Mathias Mönius, featuring some of my favorite Jewish composers: Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Leonard Bernstein, Lazar Weiner, Simon Sargon, Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, Sholom Secunda, and Abraham Ellstein!
https://www.landestheater-detmold.de/de/programm/liedmatinee-megan-marie-hart/41363145
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En temporalité internet, ça date déjà, mais je ne l'ai pas vu passer: le duo Yidlife Crisis, qui fait notamment des sketchs sur Youtube en yiddish et anglais sur leur condition de jeunes (de moins en moins) juifs canadiens yiddishophones, présente un film sur le yiddish en Suède (si, si) dont la bande-annonce est ci-dessous:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=064keW17Q9s
Pourquoi le yiddish en Suède? en deux mots, parce que c'est l'Etat dans lequel la langue fait l'objet du plus de mesures de protection/valorisation dans le monde.
#yiddish #YidLifeCrisis
LIEDMATINEE
Berühmte Komponisten jüdischer Herkunft
January 26
11:30 am
Landestheater Detmold
Celebrating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, with works by Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, Bernstein, Lazar Weiner, Sholom Secunda, Abraham Ellstein, Korngold & Simon Sargon
Soprano: Megan Marie Hart
Piano: Mathias Mönius
https://www.landestheater-detmold.de/de/programm/liedmatinee-megan-marie-hart/41363145
BERÜHMTE KOMPONISTEN JÜDISCHER HERKUNFT
January 26 11:30 Landestheater Detmold
OLD HOLLYWOOD
Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, Leonard Bernstein
JIDDISCHE ARIEN
Lazar Weiner, Sholom Secunda, Abraham Ellstein
LIEDERZYKLEN
Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Simon Sargon
Megan Marie Hart, Sopran & Mathias Mönius, Piano
https://www.landestheater-detmold.de/de/programm/liedmatinee-megan-marie-hart/41363145
Preview of my upcoming Liedmatinee at Landesthater Detmold. I am so happy to present some of my favorite Jewish composers to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
BERÜHMTE KOMPONISTEN JÜDISCHER HERKUNFT January 26 11:30 am Landestheater Detmold
https://www.landestheater-detmold.de/de/programm/liedmatinee-megan-marie-hart/41363145
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D'ailleurs, c'est pas beau la translittération de דאָיקייט?
C'est deux fois une diphtongue, mais "doikayt" est beaucoup plus fréquent que "doykayt".
(ayt ou eyt, peu importe)
Edit pour ajouter #Yiddish et un hashtag dédié:
#TransliterationProblems
Un an après l'arrivée sur ce serveur, je refais une #introduction, plus en phase avec ma pratique effective de Masto.
Apprentie enseignante-chercheuse, qui pouète sur ses lectures et quelques émerveillements langagiers (dont des blagues de germanophone) et énervements (surtout quand ça relaie des idées fausses, en particulier sur les langues). Je suis intéressée par les #SHS, en premier lieu la #sociolinguistique et l' #anthropologie
J'essaie de faire une veille autour du #yiddish (mon domaine principal de recherche), mais je crois que je pouète tout autant sur le tricot et les quelques jeux que je teste, souvent dans une perspective d'utilisation en cours de #FLE
Je me languis de refaire de l'analyse de discours.
Taisant un grand nombre d'autres choses à ce sujet, je livre parfois mes réflexions méthodologiques (rédaction principalement) sur le doctorat.
שלום אליכם!
איך בין אַן אַספּיראַנטקע פֿון פֿראַנקרײך (וואָס אַרבעט אין דער שווייץ), איך פֿאָרש וועגן #יידיש חיינט אין עוראָפּע (זומערקורסן). איך שרײַב מער אױף פֿראַנצעזיש װי יידיש, אָבער איך פּרוּװ צו טײַלן אינפֿאָרמאַציעס לגבי יידיש אין פֿראַנקרײַך (מערסטנס).
Today I learned that Ludwik Zamenhof was #Jewish and wrote the first grammar of #Yiddish in addition to constructing #Esperanto. Having married twice into international families I think a lot about cosmopolitanism.
Today in Labor History November 20, 1896: Rose Pesotta was born on this date to a Jewish family in Ukraine. Pesotta was an anarchist labor activist and the only woman on the General Executive Board of the International Ladies' Garment Workers (ILGWU) from 1933-1944. She learned about anarchism by reading books by Bakunin in her father’s library. Her parents set up an arranged marriage for her, which she did not approve. So, she emigrated to the U.S. in 1913, joining the ILGWU the next year. Her local, #25, was filled with militant women veterans of the 1909 Shirtwaist Strike. She wrote regularly for the New York Anarchist press, in both English and in Yiddish. She was friends with Italian-American anarchist Bartolomeo Vanzetti. In 1933, she organized immigrant Mexican garment workers, leading to the Los Angeles Garment Workers Strike. She also organized workers in Canada and Puerto Rico. Later in life, she worked briefly for the B’nai B’rith. She also wrote two memoirs, Bread Upon the Waters (1944),[6] and Days of Our Lives (1958).
#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #rosepesotta #feminism #ilgwu #ukraine #jewish #yiddish #union #strike #immigration #memoir #writer #author #books @bookstadon