Yiddish

We remember the great Yiddish poet and Vilnius partisan Avrom Sutzkever, Eh, on this his birthday anniversary and we hear about him and also his own recorded readings of his wonderful creations in poetry and prose.

Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with Claude Hampel, the editor of the socio-literary journal Yidishe Heftn and producer presenter of the Yiddish Hour radio program in Paris.      

The last Census 2011 showed a growth of 21% of those Australians who identify themselves as being of Aboriginal background. This high growth in numbers came as a bit of a surprise to the authorities, but not to the Australian Bureau of Statistics...

Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.

The controversial Carbon Tax was officially launched in Australia this week and the debate over it has continued to rage. Alex Dafner presents this report prepared by Peggy Giakoumelos and Dawn Tratt of the SBS News and Current Affairs department...

Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with Stephan Blank from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, about his familys background, Yiddish and Jews in this South American country.

Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.

The Polish-Australian Yiddish writer Herz Bergner e"h, described in one of his books, in a chapter titled Refugees, the scene and feelings around the arrival of the first survivors of the Holocaust, to Melbourne in the 1940s. Alex Dafner reads fr...

The long serving Orthodox Rabbi of Frankfurt, Germany, Rabbi Menachem Klein was born in Jerusalem and always spoke Yiddish at home, be it in Israel or in Germany. Our European correspondent Max Kohn spoke with Rabbi Klein about that and about the...