Posts Tagged ‘Yiddish’

Designer Tradition – “Mother Tongue” Jewelry by Yael Kanarek

30, Jun 2014

Photo credit: Gili Getz “Mother Tongue” is a collection of fine jewelry in Hebrew, Yiddish and Aramaic created by artist Yael Kanarek during her fellowship at LABA House of Study at the 14Y. Kanarek created the works inspired by texts from the Bible, Zohar, Lea Goldberg, Celia Dropkin and her grandmother. The works are created […]

New York Jewish Film Festival: Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish

18, Jan 2011

By Saul Sudin | Tweet Eve Annenberg, USA, 2010; 91m The Jewish film world is starved for new ideas to emerge. Just as Ava (The film’s writer/director Eve Annenberg) is tasked with updating an early-20th Century Yiddish version of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet for a modern Yiddish-speaking audience, so too it seems that Jewish cinema […]


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