Linocut print (hand-carved). I am working on making more that showcase the beauty of yiddish. Open to suggestions/critiques, I am trying to learn!

Background: i work for a company founded by an Orthodox Jew in Monsey NY. We have multiple employees who speak and/or understand Yiddish. I am Jewish. This is unacceptable language.

Tell Harvard not to cut programs and to bargain in good faith with the union. This affects Yiddish worldwide and so many communities! Send a letter & share far and wide! Tools and much more information can be found on the website: https://saveharvardyiddish.org/

We are concerned Jewish community members, and need your help to fight for the future of Yiddish language and culture. Harvard’s Yiddish program is under threat, and we need our communities and anyone interested in Yiddish to send this letter demanding that the University change course.

Harvard shockingly denied tenure to its only Yiddish literature professor last year, and now its “time caps” will force out its two remaining Yiddish faculty: its only Yiddish instructor, and its only Holocaust historian.

...We must stand up for our friends and colleagues in Yiddish and in every other endangered language, culture, and program at Harvard and across higher education.

Please join us in sending our objections to Harvard’s President, Provost, and Deans. Share this campaign as widely as possible in your networks, synagogues, and schools. We hope that every single person concerned about Yiddish and Jewish culture will see this and speak up for ours and every community that is affected.

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I always find it interesting reading signs in Hasidic Williamsburg. I’m clearly an outsider, which already gets me some looks, but stopping to read the Yiddish signs further confuses people. I also think it’s funny that these signs are directed at people who probably couldn’t read them in the first place…

Hey! I spotted this in Krakow. I posted in r/Hebrew (now deleted, I didn’t realise it was Yiddish) and they told me is from the now dissolved socialist-antizionist party הבונד, and that it didn’t have a literal translation but each word has a ‘deeper meaning’. Can anybody help me with the translation and if they know current context of this (and the ‘deeper meaning’ too)? I know הבונד was pre-Shoah and dissolved with the declaration of the State of Israel, but is it still going here in Poland? I’ve seen other versions of this sticker in original posters from the early 1920s but with different words.

Thanks

אינעם אַמאָליקן פּױלן האָבן אַ סך ייִדן געצױגן זײער פּרנסה פֿון קרעטשמעס און אַכסניות. „יאַנקעל דער ייִדישער קרעטשמער למשל איז טאַקע די פּאָפּולערסטע ייִדישע געשטאַלט אין דער פּױלישער ליטעראַטור.

For centuries in Poland many Jews earned a living by owning taverns and inns. No surprise then that 'Yankel the Jewish tavern owner' was the most popular Jewish character in Polish literature.

https://forward.com/yiddish/731575/the-jewish-tavern-in-polish-culture/?fbclid=IwY2xjawLI6ahleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhyOsztJgGnxmhBjfKvrRaYB5EBRw6CAmDWOKVSm4kT73kBJEpoajIpcgobC_aem_L-7zl3Wt1l6PXK_eBf96cw

On August 12, 1952, thirteen Soviet Jews—Yiddish cultural figures, many of whom had been members of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee during World War II—were executed in the Lybanka prison in Moscow. They had already been held captive for several years and had been repeatedly interrogated and tortured. Among these victims of Stalinist persecution were five Yiddish writers: Peretz Markish, Dovid Hofshteyn, Itzik Feffer, Leyb Kvitko, and Dovid Bergelson. Today, the date of their deaths is commemorated as the “Night of the Murdered Poets.” 

May their neshomes have an aliyah

Zohran Mamdani is making a direct appeal to Brooklyn’s Hasidic community, targeting an influential constituency that often votes based on rabbinical guidance.

In an open letter written in Hasidic Yiddish and published in Yiddish-language newspapers on Wednesday, Mamdani, the Democratic candidate to be New York City’s mayor, wrote, “You have probably heard a lot about me, and some of it may be a distorted picture of who I am. Therefore, it is important for me to address you directly on important issues and to set the record straight.”

The letter, which comes as some prominent Jewish leaders and rabbis have mobilized behind former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s mayoral campaign, outlines Mamdani’s plan to combat antisemitism, which includes the creation of a department of community safety and a commitment to increase funding for anti-hate crime programming by 800%. It also details his proposals to expand affordable housing and establish universal childcare — measures that would ease housing and education strains in growing Hasidic neighborhoods such as Williamsburg, Borough Park and Crown Heights.

“I have had the honor myself to meet with members of the Orthodox Jewish community,” Mamdani wrote in the letter. “I still have a lot to learn, but this was a wonderful introduction to an important and valued part of what makes New York so amazing.”

Do you have any Yiddish documents from your Swedish ancestors, either typed or handwritten? Read today that Swedish National Yiddish Association still appreciates submissions for their new Yiddish archive. I surely sent mine, can’t wait for that archive to go online. Your old Yiddish docs from Sweden can actually become cultural heritage, see here: https://yiddish-archive-sweden.carrd.co

Was hanging in my inlaws house, just pulled it from storage. Framed as shown.

איך האָב געדרוקט אַ סך לאַטעס און געטראַכט אַז איר װעט זײַן אינטרעסירט! איך האָב געניצט לינאָדרוק...

Hey all! I'm heading production of a Yiddish video game at the moment. It's in Yiddish, and folklore, themes and events from eastern ashkenaz to create a fantasy world in Warsaw between the world wars.

I'm trying to get some consistent branding at the moment to market to the people who would be most interested in this sort of thing, so I thought I'd ask you all.

What draws you to the idea? What do you expect to be able to do in this game? What would make you look into it further? What are some thoughts and feelings you have thinking about it?

Thank you for all of your time.