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Contemporary Yiddish
Online Texts and Voice
Recent Essays by Dovid Katz
IN YIDDISH STUDIES:
Oldest word in the Yiddish language
What does the word Litvak mean?
Symbology of the variant spellings of the Yiddish word for ‘Yiddish’
What does the word yidishíst mean?
Where does the name Zálmen come from?
The Morgn zhurnal, the Tog, the Tog — Morgn Zhurnal and the Algemeyner Zhurnal
Mitchell's book on Haredi Yiddish in Britain
Haredophobia and its Yiddish incarnations
Blumke Katz’s version of Di bord
In defense of Shmuel Niger I
In defense of Shmuel Niger II
The dialectology of afikóymen in Northeastern Yiddish
Yehoyesh (Yehoash) and his Bible translation I
Yehoyesh (Yeshoash) and his Bible translation II
IN MEMORY OF:
Carl Cowl (Kalmen Kovl, 1900 — 1997)
Itche Goldberg (1904—2006) I
Itche Goldberg (1904—2006) II
Arthur Hertzberg (1921—2006)
Gershon Jacobson (1934 — 2005) I
Gershon Jacobson (1934 — 2005) II
Blumke Katz (1913 — 2006)
Eli Katz (1928 — 2006)
Yudl Mark (1897—1975)
Joseph Mlotek (1918—2000)
EXPEDITIONS:
Stefanija Gudeniene (once Feygitshke Yoffe) of Utena (Utyan), the one survivor of the massacre at Vabalninkas (Abolnik), who said: “Please write my story when I die”
With Hirsh Khosid in Grodna
The last Jew in Vorne (Varniai), a tormented convert
In Keshenev
Rozhánke and its priest
Mendele’s “replaced” gravestone in Odessa
On a train from Pinsk to Minsk
Hirsh Pekl of Vilkomir (Ukmerge) recalls how he ordered German troops to surrender
Dobke Yonis of Zezmer
Latvia I
Latvia II
VILNA:
Professor N. N. Shneidman’s Yiddish Medal from the Vilna Ghetto
The Medal is returned to its rightful owner
Ghetto Survivor and Partisan Fania Yocheles-Brantsovsky, now the VYI’s librarian, turns 85!
Meylekh Stalevitch found his mother in a Vilna courtyard
Meeting the Pagans (Multitheists) of Lithuania
Joe Boski, the American diplomat in Vilnius
VARIOUS:
Boro Park Memoir
The Four Most Controversial Words in the New Testament (and Mr. Mel Gibson)
Goldstein's book on Spinoza
A Tear for Shneur-Zalmen of Lyadi
Yiddish Writers Give Lifestyle Advice...
SHORT STORIES
The Secret Name of God
Zalmorra of the Prophets
Divine Intervention
The Convert
The Peddler of Klushan
The Master's Last Preface
The Witch of Purim
Gershom of Shumsk
The Angel of Death goes on Trial
The Golden City
The Einstein of Svir
More at www.dovidkatz.net
Recent Poems by Boris Karloff (aka Dov-Ber Kerler) in the Algemeyner Zhurnál:
"ווערטער אין שפּיגל" verter in shpigl 'Words in a Mirror'
אַ גראַם" לדורות" a gram ledoyres 'Rhyming across Generations'
"דער פראָסט" der frost 'The Frost'
"גייענדיק אַהיים דורכן וואַלד ערב אָוונט" geyendik aheym durkhn vald erev-ovnt 'Walking home through the woods...'
"אינמיטן רוישנדיקער גאַס" nmitn royshndiker gas 'On a busy Street'
"אָנזאָג" onzog 'Wishsful Saying'
"בענקשאַפט" benkshaft 'Longing'
"מייסטערשאַפט" maystershaft Virtuoso'
Links to other sites containing modern and contemporary Yiddish poetry and authored songs:
Alter Esselin (1889-1974)
http://www.esselin.com/poetry.htm#
http://www.esselin.com/yiddish.htm
Rokhl Korn (1898-1982)
http://www.rachelkorn.com/rkorn.htm
Menke Katz (1906-1991)
http://menkekatz.blogspot.com/
Yoysef Kerler (1918-2000)
http://vayngortn.blogspot.com/
http://gezang.blogspot.com/
Yisroel Shtern (1984-c.1942)
http://www.yisroelshtern.org/
Dora Teitelboim (1914-1992)
http://www.yiddishculture.org/poems.html
Reyzl Zhychlinsky (1910-2001)
http://www.zchor.org/zychlinsky/zychlinsky.htm
לידער פון יום טוב עהרליך
Lider fun Yom Tov Ehrlich
חייקע ברוריה וויגאַנד
Khayke Berurye Wiegand
משה לעמסטער
Moyshe Lemster
וועלוול טשערנין
Velvl Chernin
באָריס קאַרלאָוו
Boris Karloff
http://elabrek.blogspot.com/
http://poshetunprost.blogspot.com/