Yiddish/Jewish Links
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Yiddish/Jewish Links
Following are links to other relevant Yiddish and Jewish web sites that might be of interest to you.
Bitsela Artz Clip Art -- some of the Jewish theme clip art on this web site came from Bitsela
Ken Ulansey Ensembles -- Ken is a multi-talented musician, saxophonost and clarinetist. Among his specialties is Klezmer music.
He has occassionally asked Fran to join him on stage at his concerts.
Der Bay --
Yiddish newsletter, based in San Francisco, which calls itself "The Golden Gate
to the Worldwide Yiddish Community."
The Jewish Forward --
Only U.S. Secular weekly Yiddish newspaper.
Harry
Leichter’s Yiddish Stuff -- Includes over 50 links to Yiddish-related sites
Robert and Molly Freedman Jewish Music Archives, University of Pennsylvania
Jewish Music Web Center at Brandeis University -- Extensive listings of performers and performances
Ari
Davidow’s
Klez Shack -- Extensive listings of Klezmer musicians, links to performers and Jewish music web sites
Paula
Kirman’s Jewish/Israeli Music Web Site -- Listings of performers
Klezmer and Yiddish Radio Shows -- Information about programs in the United States, Canada and Europe. The following are those with web sites:
- Dos
Yiddish Kol (The Yiddish Voice)
-- Radio
program in Brookline, MA, WUNR
1600AM, “serving Boston’s Yiddish-speaking community and a Yiddish
Internet resource serving the world.” Also sells books, Klezmer music
CDs, cassettes, songbooks
- Rejuvenating
Heritage Jewish web site
-- Israeli,
Klezmer, Yiddish, Contemporary, Children’s Music, and other Jewish Music
in College Station, TX
- Jewish
Music Web Center
-- “The purpose of the Jewish
Music WebCenter is to provide an online forum for academic, organizational, and
individual
activities in Jewish music. Information is provided to encourage and support
scholarship, enjoyment, creation and general knowledge of Jewish music.”
- Contributions
of Jewish
Women to Music and of Women to Jewish Music
-- “the very first
webpage
dedicated solely to Jewish women’s contributions
in
music”. Link off Jewish Music Web Center.
- Sunday
Simcha
-- Tampa,
FL. Klezmer, Chasidic, Israeli, Yiddish, Ladino, Mizrachi music. Shows are
archived.
Can be heard on the Internet.
- The
Klezmer Hour
-- Originating
from Williams College in Williamstown, MA hosted by Seth
Rogovy on WCFM 91.9.
Can
be
heard
on
the
Internet.
Traditional
Klezmer, neo-Klezmer and non-Klezmer-based New Jewish Music.
- Sunday
Morning Klezmer and Other Jewish Music
-- an
exploration of Jewish Music, Art and Culture. WBZC-FM (88.9) covers
Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Ocean, and Salem Counties
in Southern New Jersey, and parts of Eastern Pennsylvania, including Philadelphia.
Jewish/Yiddish Music Store -- CDs, cassettes, books available through the web site
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research --
Dedicated to the study and preservation of the Eastern European Jewish heritage.
Since its founding in 1925, YIVO has become the world’s preeminent research
institute and academic center for Eastern European Jewish studies.
The National Yiddish Book Center -- Dedicated to rescuing unwanted and discarded Yiddish books and sharing the treasures they contain -- the culture and the sensibility of the past thousand years of Jewish history -- as a wellspring of contemporary Jewish creativity.
Congress of Secular Jewish Organizations -- Umbrella organization of Secular Jewish schools and organizations in North America, which emphasizes Jewish history, ethics and Yiddish culture.
Jewish
Children’s Folkshul of Philadelphia --
Secular Jewish school in Philadelphia, which is a member of CSJO, and where
Fran has taught for more than 30 years.
Workmen’s
Circle/Arbeter
Ring -- Dedicated to fostering Jewish identity and participation in Jewish life, through Jewish, especially Yiddish, culture and education, friendship, mutual aid and the pursuit of social and economic justice.
Language
and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry Collection of Spoken Yiddish, Columbia
University -- “an extraordinary
resource for research in Yiddish studies, consists of 5,755 hours of audio
tape field interviews
with Yiddish speaking informants
collected
between 1959 and 1972 and ca. 100,000 pages of accompanying linguistic field
notes.”
Yungntruf (Youth for Yiddish) -- A worldwide organization of Yiddish-speaking and Yiddish-learning young adults who get together to speak Yiddish, to read and study Yiddish literature, and to write, sing and socialize in Yiddish.
Mendele -- Mailing list forum for Yiddish language, literature and culture.
About Fran
Bio/Resume