Yiddish
Menashe Lustig stars in Menashe.
October 13, 2017, 10:48 am
Life in Brooklyn’s Chassidic community
A chance meeting led to filmmaker Joshua Weinstein making Menashe, the first full-length Yiddish feature film in decades that is set in Brooklyn’s Chassidic community.
A scene from the Yiddish film Menashe starring Menashe Lustig.
September 27, 2017, 12:04 pm
Festival of acclaimed films
This year's Jewish International Film Festival features acclaimed movies and documentaries from around the world, plus several Australian premieres. Arts Editor Danny Gocs reports.
Dr Joseph Toltz is the curator of the Out of the Shadows festival.
July 25, 2017, 12:24 pm
Uncovering hidden music works
Lost cultural works from Europe from the 1930s and 1940s are being given new life in a music festival in Sydney. Danny Gocs reports.
YID! delivers Yiddish music - with a mix of jazz, big-band, funk, electronica and indie-folk.
July 25, 2017, 12:19 pm
YID! a big group with a bigger sound
When 20 leading musicians join forces to reinterpret Yiddish songs, the result is the infectious sound of YID! Rebecca Davis reports.
Contestants at the 2017 In One Voice bagel eating competition. Photo: Ren Rizzolo
March 28, 2017, 12:01 am
In One Voice rocks the streets
AN estimated 8000 people flocked to the In One Voice (IOV) festival on Sunday despite the sweltering conditions.
Singer Natalie Gamsu
March 16, 2016, 4:03 pm
Yiddish favourites at In One Voice
Singer Natalie Gamsu is excited to be performing several Yiddish songs at the In One Voice festival which will be held in Elsternwick from 11am to 5pm on March 20.
Klezmania is welcomed to Marysville in Victoria’s High Country. From left: Freydi Mrocki, Eugene Belenko, David Krycer and Lionel Mrocki.
October 29, 2015, 9:54 am
Taking klezmer to the country
Popular klezmer band Klezmania recently performed 13 concerts over five weekends in regional Victoria. For far-flung members of the Jewish community, it was an opportunity to connect through music.
May 6, 2015, 1:55 pm
Yiddish redux
February 11, 2015, 1:09 pm
For the love of Yiddish
April 3, 2014, 10:01 am
Memories of Carlton shtetl
Executive Council of Australian Jewry executive director Peter Wertheim.
April 4, 2012, 11:24 am
SBS’s Jewish programs move closer to extinction
THE end of Hebrew and Yiddish programs on SBS radio now seems more likely than ever, after the broadcaster announced the criteria it will use to determine which programs will be cut.
By Joshua Levi
January 17, 2012, 12:00 am
SBS programs safe… for now
THE future of Jewish programs on SBS Radio are not at risk, at least for the time being.
By Joshua Levi
September 1, 2011, 11:52 am
In praise of a poet and storyteller
April 6, 2011, 8:34 am
Yiddish with an Aussie accent
December 21, 2010, 9:06 am
Keeping the memory alive
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