Last Golden Links: Yiddish Treasures

Arts, Provocation, and Jewish History – Episode 9 from jewishLIVE on Vimeo.

A short interview in Yiddish and English with a Cambodian-American Yiddish student. The California Institute for Yiddish Culture & Language (CIYCL) is a non profit organization dedicated to the revitalization of Yiddish.

But creativity in Yiddish is never ending! A new song for our times אַ ליד פֿאַר אונדזערע צײַטן Lyrics: Hindy Nosek-Abelson ליריק׃ הינדי נאָסעק-אייבעלסאָן Singer: Lenka Lichtenberg זינגערין׃ לענקאַ ליכטענבערג Melody: Those Were the Days אַ מאָל געװען אַ צײַט פֿון הינדי נאָסעק-־אייבעלסאָן אַ מאָל האָט מען געגעסן גוטע עסנס און געטרונקען װײַן מיט גוטע פֿרײַנד גוטע צײַטן טאָר…

Avrum Traiber, who was a member of “Undzer Grupe” LA Yiddish reading circle, reciting a poem by the famous Yiddish Bard Itzik Manger, in his beautiful Bessarabian Yiddish dialect which is now very rate. The California Institute for Yiddish Culture & Language (CIYCL) is a non profit organization dedicated to the revitalization of Yiddish.

Intro to the Last Golden Links: Yiddish Treasures Video Archive – A Project of the California Institute for Yiddish Culture & Language