אַידיש ליד יעדען טאָג: ״הד גדיאַ״ אַױף אַידיש אַױפֿגעפֿירט פֿון זמירותּ כאַר
Yiddish Song of the Day: "Had Gadya" in Yiddish performed by Zemiros Choir #Yiddish #YiddishSongoftheDay
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN9o...
אַידיש ליד יעדען טאָג: ״דאָרט בײַם ברעג פֿון װאַלדל
Yiddish Song of the Day: "There by the Edge of the Forest" #Yiddish #YiddishSongoftheDay
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGTE...
אַידיש ליד יעדען טאָג: ״קדיש נאָך אַ אַידישער סאָלדאַט״
Yiddish Song of the Day: "Kaddish for a Jewish Soldier" #Yiddish #YiddishSongoftheDay
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dzD...
The Workers Circle’s Trip to Yiddishland is our 7 day, 6 night retreat featuring five levels of Yiddish classes, dance and klezmer, theater and music workshops, concerts, and a children’s program along with full access to facilities.
#Yiddish #YiddishCulture #JewishCommunity
Just as musical chords can lie hidden
for someone to strum the silent strings,
I hold love in my heart and am biding,
though no one has yet come by.
Upon my heart soft Springs have scrolled
and suns have drunk the blossoms’ wine.
I threw wide all the doors and all the windows,
and still, no one […]
אַידיש ליד יעדען טאָג ״אַלע װײַבער מעגן שטימען״ אַפֿגעפֿירט פֿון אַיזאַבעל פֿרײַ
Yiddish Song of the Day: "Women Can Vote!" performed by Isabel Frey #Yiddish #YiddishSongoftheDay
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TqU...
Balagan Junk-room depository for Persian genius: Makeshift upper-floor, Bala-khaneh, Attic ransacked by Seljuk, Timur, or Golden Horde - for Prestige speech, for Thought cachet. Conveyed to Kyiv and Medieval Muscovy as Cluttered litter-chattel, Bordel, or moveable booth at Circus and market, it Shifts there from Ramshackle cubicle into Metaphorical disorder; Settles into Slavic and Yiddish as pandemonium, Bedlam, fiasco - Balagan. Dirty, dismal Chazer Shtal* of Despot, pogrom, commissar - Blight-pest, death-squad Einsatzgruppe - Babi Yar. Dirt and disarray of Hekdesh – Sacred space lent to Pilgrim, pauper or wayfarer, Left in distress at their Departure. Whither the Balagan? That Slapdash, Vagabond stage play; that Puppet-show, freakshow Wagon-cage. Fairground Diabolade, Unruly tabernacle - Chaos churned amid Muffled Sootfalls on the Sabbath. ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2026 *Pigsty (Yiddish)
The Text Version of "Balagan"
@coastalpoet.bsky.social #PoemsAloud
Thanks @wildfirewords.bsky.social who published this in the OS9 Anthology
#poem: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2026
#Balagan #Persian #Slavic #Yiddish #etymology #SpokenWord #Carnivalesque
#Poets #poetrycommunity, a great new initiative by @coastalpoet.bsky.social - #PoemsAloud
Thanks @wildfirewords.bsky.social who published this in the OS9 Anthology
#poem: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2026
#Balagan #Persian #Slavic #Yiddish #etymology #SpokenWord #Carnivalesque
אַידיש ליד יעען טאָג: ״חשובה טעכטער״ אַפֿגעפֿירט פֿון סאָפֿי מילמאַן
Yiddish Song of the Day: "Honored Daughters" performed by Sophie Millman #Yiddish #YiddishSongoftheDay
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr0E...
The HUGELY influential Dan Yemin of Lifetime, Kid Dynamite, Paint It Black and now, Bitter Branches, joins us this week to talk about early live shows he attended, #psychology #NJhiphop... even a little #Yiddish lesson.
goingofftrack.com
#podcast #musicpodcast #hardcore #punk #punkrock
אַידיש ליד יעדען טאָג: ״די מאַמע אַיז געגאַנגען״ אַױפֿגעפֿירט פֿון האָרס ראַדדיש
Yiddish Song of the Day: "Die Mame is Gegangen" performed by Horse Raddish Electric Klezmer #Yiddish #YiddishSongoftheDay
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x5G...
אַידיש ליד יעדען טאָג: ״אַױפֿן הױכען באַרג״ אַױפֿגעפֿירט פֿון פּסױ קאָראָלענקאָ
Yiddish Song of the Day: "On the High Mountain" performed by Psoy Korolenko #Yiddish #YiddishSongoftheDay
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqRP...
Join klezmer musician Deborah Strauss, Yiddish Culture Organizer, and Kolya Borodulin, Director of Yiddish Programming, on Monday, April 6 at 1:00 PM ET for a khol-hamoed peysakh online get-together. Register here: www.circle.org/events/passo...
#Passover #Yiddish
אַידיש ליד יעדען טאָג: דניאַל קאַהן זינגט דילאַן אַױף אַידיש
Yiddish Song of the Day: Daniel Kahn sings Bob Dylan in Yiddish #Yiddish #YiddishSongoftheDay
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c66m...
אַידיש ליד יעדען טאָג: ״די נשמהפֿון מױן פֿאָלק״ אַױפֿגעפֿירט פֿון שמעון פּאַסקאַל
Yiddish Song of the Day: "The Soul of my People" performed by Shimon Paskal #Yiddish #YiddishSongoftheDay
www.youtube.com/watch?v=prlS...
Women in Jewish history have always been pillars of strength, fortitude, and resistance.
This song was written by Kariel Broydo while in the Vilno ghetto. It is part of the We Are Here! Songs of the Holocaust collection.
#WomensHistoryMonth #workerscircle #Yiddish
אַידיש ליד יעדען טאָג: ״הילד הזה״ אַױפֿגעפֿירט פֿון מאָטי ילוביץ
Yiddish Song of the Day: "Hayeled Hazeh" performed by Motti Illowitz #Yiddish #YiddishSongoftheDay
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBdC...
אַידיש ליד יעדען טאָג: ״הײַנטיגע טעג״ אַױפֿגעפֿירט פֿון סענדער געלב
Yiddish Song of the Day: "These Days" performed by Sender Gelb #Yiddish #YiddishSongoftheDay
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQK6...
R.I.P., Carol #Kitman, née Sibushnik [°Feb. 1, 1930 – Mar. 3, 2026]🕯️😔🌹
#photography #AlexanderVindman #YevgenyVindman #VindmanTwins #KenBurns #JohnCheever #TrumanCapote #MarvinKitman #Yiddish #KatePerloff #CarolyneSibushnik #CarolKitman
אַידיש ליד יעדען טאָג: ״גרוסאַמער שיקזאַל״ אַױפֿגעפֿירט פֿון דזײַן פּעפּלער
Yiddish Song of the Day: "Cruel Fate" performed by Jane Peppler #Yiddish #YiddishSongoftheDay
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jnlr...
Join klezmer musician Deborah Strauss, Yiddish Culture Organizer, and Nikolai Borodulin, Director of Yiddish Programming, on Monday, April 6 at 1:00 PM ET for a khol-hamoed peysakh online get-together. Register here: www.circle.org/events/passo...
#Passover #Yiddish
Surgery or no, we’re still out here translating Yiddish lit (mit matcha avade 💚) #yiddish #yiddishliterature #abrahamsutzkever #translation #phd #poetry
#Theatre A new stage take on Isaac Bashevis Singer’s “Yentl” leans into its spiritual stakes—performed partly in Yiddish (with surtitles)—while sparking timely questions on language, culture, gender, and belonging. Catching it? Share your thoughts. #Yiddish #Culture
אַידיש ליד יעדען טאָג: ״שרײַט שבתּ״ אַױפֿגעפֿירט פֿון הערשי װײַנבערגער אַון שמואַלי לאַנדאַו
Yiddish Song of the Day: "Shreit Shabbos" performed by Hershy Weinberger and Shmueli Landau #Yiddish #YiddishSongoftheDay
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKsh...
אַידיש ליד יעדען טאָג: ״פֿיגאַראָ שװיגערל״ אַױפֿגעפֿירט פֿון מיכאַל גײַזינסקי
Yiddish Song of the Day: "Marriage of Figaro" performed by Michael Gaysinsky, music by Rossini, illustrations by AI Slop #Yiddish #YiddishSongoftheDay
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LVV...
Arbeter Froyen, or Working Women, was originally published as a poem by Dovid Edelshtat in 1891 before being published as text and music in 1918. It was a popular song in Eastern Europe and Tsarist Russia. It was featured in the Off-Broadway musical The Golden Land.
#WomensHistoryMonth #Yiddish
אַידיש ליד יעדען טאָג: ״אַיך קען נישט זאָגן װיצן״ אַױפֿגעפֿירט פֿון די קלעזמאַטיקס
Yiddish Song of the Day: "I Can't Tell A Joke" performed by The Klezmatics #Yiddish #YiddishSongoftheDay
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3iz...
#Chance | The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the @Harvard University seeks to fill the position of a lecturer in Yiddish Studies | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht...
#Yiddish #lecturer #position
Deadline for applications: April 1, 2026
Fun chain of derivation + borrowing:
#Hebrew g-ʔ-y 'to be proud'
> gaʔăw-ā 'pride'
> gaʔawṯ-ān 'prideful'
> gaʔawṯān-ūṯ 'pridefulness'
> #Yiddish gavsones 'arrogance'
> #Dutch kapsones 'airs'
> kapsones-lijer 'braggart'
Did you get bingo? Get involved with the Workers Circle today by exploring our website www.circle.org!
#WorkersCircle #Yiddish #SocialJustice
