lick Here to Read: How a teenage photographer captured a vanishing world before the Holocaust: Richard Scheuer’s images of ordinary life in 1934 are both unsettling and prescient By Simi Horwitz on the Forward website on October 12, 2022.
Jews working in one of the manufacturing plants (so called szops) in the Warsaw Ghetto/ Image: Stanisław Poznański (oprac./edit.), Walka. Śmierć. Pamięć 1939-1945. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: Lucian Freud review – the Queen, Leigh Bowery and the artist’s ex-wives stand brutally revealed: From the monarch to the naked performance artist who was living with Aids, Freud paints life lived in the face of death, with an unsentimental eye for human tenderness by Jonathan Jones on the Guqrdian website on September 27, 2022.
Lucian Freud Naked Portraits Museum at Moderne Kunst Frankfurt 2000 with Rolf Lauter. Image: Photoarchiv Mirko Krizanovic Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Click Here to Read: Groundbreaking album breathes new life into nearly abandoned Jewish musical art: Jeremiah Lockwood sought to revive the early 20th century style of cantorial music; he found unexpected partners in the Brooklyn Hasidic community By Zach Golden on the Forward website on August 11, 2022.
The long and complicated history of Jews in Ukraine was not always a happy one, but it would be a mistake to think of it as an unmitigated series of upheavals. To the contrary, the region gave rise to some of the greatest achievements of Jewish literature and culture, as the collections of the Yiddish Book Center bear witness. As exhibit A, you can listen to this program of readings and songs from Yiddish works in translation by Yiddish writers from Ukraine including Blume Lempel, Mendel Osherowitz, Dora Shulner, and Sholem Aleichem.
View our map of Yiddish writers who were born or lived or worked in Ukraine
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Click Here to Read: Yiddish Folk Song in Classical Music: Since before the 18th century, Jewish folk melodies have had a rich, unexpected influence on musical composition by Alex Weiser on the Tablet website on June 24, 2022.
A photograph of Joel Engel, Russian composer and ethnomusicologist, with an Edison phonograph used in recording Jewish folk songs. Image: Author Unknown. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons,
