Website Dedicated to Yiddish Songs

The Workers’ Circle has launched a new website that features lyrics and freely downloadable audio recordings of more than 400 Yiddish songs from Yosl and Chana Mlotek’s anthology. It’s called Yiddishsongs.org. All songs are also accompanied by Roman letters transcription and English translation.

Chana Mlotek was a renowned researcher and collector of Yiddish songs, while her husband Yosl was a prominent Yiddishist activist. For decades the couple ran the popular Forverts column “Pearls of Jewish Poetry”. The new project was carried out by the son and grandson of these authors, Moish and Elisha Mlotek.