Yiddish Arts Community: Emes Truth
Yiddish Arts Community: Emes Truth
The new exhibition Emes Truth by the Yiddish Arts Community, curated by the artists Yevgeniy Fiks and Deborah Ugoretz, will open on December 17, 2024, at the Backman Gallery of the Dr. Bernard Heller Museum (Hebrew Union College). The opening event, which will take place from 5 to 7 PM, will feature a performance by the musicians Sarah Myerson and Ilya Shneyveys. Participation is free, but requires online registration.
Participating artists are Danielle Alhassid, Yuliya Lanina, Debbie Schore, Miriam Stern, and Silvia Wagensberg. In historial orthography of the Yiddish language, there are several ways to spell the word “truth” (“emes”). The exhibition, related to the upcoming festival Yiddish New York 2024, will offer a variety of “orthographies” that spell out various human concepts and lived experiences.
On December 1, 2024, the London-based Yiddish poet Beruriah Wiegand will read and discuss her poetry at the special online event hosted by the Leyvik House in Tel Aviv at 6 PM Israel time. The event, moderated by the Amsterdam-based Yiddish poet David Omar Cohen, will be entirely in Yiddish. 
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.
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.