New Yiddish Magazine Presented in Amsterdam
New Yiddish Magazine Presented in Amsterdam
On November 24, 2024, the official presentation of the new Yiddish magazine “Di Goldene Pave” (“The Golden Peacock”) was held in Amsterdam, although its first pilot issue had already been published in June. The publication is the continuation of the previous Amsterdam-based Yiddish magazine “Di grine medine” (“The Green Country”), published since 2000.
“Di Goldene Pave” is edited by Dr. David Omar Cohen, Gloria Fein Makkink and Daniella Zaidman-Mauer and is supported by the Yiddish Foundation of the Netherlands.
Mikhoel Felsenbaum, a prominent Yiddish novelist, poet and playwright, has received a lifetime achievement award for 2024 in the field of literature from the Israeli National Authority for Yiddish Culture. Dr. Shoshana Dominski, who compiled a Yiddish-Hebrew online dictionary, was awarded a certificate of appreciation.
De Gruyter, a major German publishing house specializing in academic literature, published a book entitled Socialist Yiddishlands dedicated to the role of Yiddish in post-WWII socialist states, including Poland, the USSR, the German Democratic Republic and Romania. The volume, edited by Miriam Chorley-Schulz and Alexander Walther, also uncovers diverse cultural Yiddish-related initiatives during the Cold War era between the Eastern Bloc and such Western countries as the US, Great Britain and Israel.
