Yiddish

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

Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with Erez Levy of the Medem Centre Arbeter Ring in Paris about his road to Yiddish and associated psychoanalytical journey.

The controversy over the use of armed and unarmed drones in conflicts, debated recently in the USA, has also its echoes in Australia. Alex Dafner presents this report prepared by Greg Dyett of SBS News and Current Affairs.

The history of the joyous festival of Purim, which took place in ancient Persia some 2340 years ago, has a lot of parallels with what is going on between the modern Persia, Iran and the Jewish state, Israel. Alex Dafner considers the Purim histor...

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

Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with Michel Kornfeld, a hidden child in WWII and more recently a member of the Yiddish "Troym-Dream" Theatre in Paris.

Multicultural organisations in Australia claim that the anti-Islamic Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders could use his visit to Australia for self-education. Wilders argues that Islam and democracy are incompatible and he warns about the dangers ...

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

Five years since the then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's official apology to the Aborigines and Torres Straits Islanders who were taken from their parents, the so called stolen generation, is the topic still an open wound for those who suffered. Ale...

Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with the Rabbi Yosef Pewzner of the Chabad-Lubavitch about his work in Jewish Education and on Yiddish radio in Paris.

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

The Yiddish Forverts-Forward newspaper of NY, the oldest continuing Yiddish newspaper in the world, appearing since 1897, has transformed itself recently from a weekly into a fortnightly printed paper, whilst increasing the frequency of reports an...

Our European correspondent Max Kohn spoke in Paris recently with the singer and classical music researcher Lloica Czackis, originally from Beunos Aires, about the Yiddish Tango and especially the tangos composed during the Holocaust.

Israel reacted critically to a report by the Human Rights Council of the UN condemning Israel's settlement policies on the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Alex Dafner presents this summary prepared by Andrew Bolton of SBS News and Current Affairs.

The 2nd February marked the 70th anniversary of the historic victory of the Red Army over the German forces at Stalingrad, a victory which spelt the end of the Hitler Nazi regime. Yosef Feder was a decorated Russian officer who survived the battl...