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Tag: Yiddish

 A new collection of Yiddish songs casts Israel as the ‘evildoer’ in Gaza

July 29, 2025July 29, 2025Jesse Orine

Yiddish is the language of the Jews of Eastern Europe and all the places to which they spread.  It is the language of socialists and capitalists, the Partisans who fought the Nazis and most of the millions who were killed in the Holocaust. It is the everyday tongue of tens of thousands of haredi Orthodox […]

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Aaron Lansky built a home for 1.5 million Yiddish books. Now he’s handing over the keys. 

June 8, 2025June 8, 2025Jesse Orine

Steven Spielberg had already donated money to the Yiddish Book Center when he asked if the center’s founder, Aaron Lansky, might fly out to Los Angeles and drop by his office. The filmmaker doesn’t usually meet with the beneficiaries of his philanthropy, Lansky told me recently, but wanted to explain his support for what is […]

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