4th Yiddish Festival in Birobidzhan

From October 22 to 24, 2024, the 4th annual Yiddish Festival was held in Birobidzhan and several other localities of Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Region. Dozens of festive activities included concert programs, workshops, exhibitions, etc.

The coverage of these events in the local weekly TV program Yiddishkeit was combined with another exciting achievement: a children’s animation in Yiddish recently produced in Birobidzhan. It is based on a poem by Chaim Beider and is recorded in his original voice from historical Soviet-era radio archives.

Chaim Beider (1920–2003) was a Soviet Yiddish poet, journalist and literary historian. Since 1996 he was living in New York where he also played an important role in the delelopment of the American Yiddish literary scene.