Yiddish

An overview of Australian reactions to the violent actions by some Muslim protesters, during the demonstration in Sydney last Saturday. Alex Dafner presents this report prepared by Darren Mara of the SBS News and Current Affairs department.

We usher in the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashana and the solemn atmosphere of the Yomim-Neroyim, in word and song from secular and traditional Yiddish-Jewish literary and traditional sources. Wishing all a happy, healthy and peaceful Rosh Hashana, J...

Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with Violaine Lochu, a non-Jewish student of Yiddish from Brittany, France and the singer and accordionist with the Klezmer band Mashke, in Paris.

We catch up with the developments around the painful issue of asylum-seekers coming by boats to Australia and their sending to the islands of Nauru and Manus in Papua New Guinea for offshore processing. Alex Dafner presents this report prepared b...

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

Danny Ben-Moshe, Associate Professor at Deakin University, Melbourne, is the co-producer with Prof Dovid Katz previously of Vilnius, of the documentary Rewriting History, about attempts to obfuscate the Lithuanian involvement in the genocide of it...

Our European Correspondent Max Kohn speaks with Marcel Mittelman about his lifes journey, from birth in a DP camp in Germany, via France, to Melbourne, Australia.

We commemorate the murder of the 11 Israeli Olympians at the Munich Olympic Games, by Palestinian Black September terrorists, on this day the 5th September 1972, 40 years ago. Alex Dafner presents this feature prepared by Ron Sutton of the SBS Ne...

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

The Israeli actress and special guest at this year's Australian-Israeli Film Festival, Evgenia Dodina stars in the film "Invisible", a sensitive story about rape set against the backdrop of other sensitive events, as Alex Dafner found out when he ...

Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with Lucille Eichengreen, a former secretary in the ghetto office of the infamous "Emperor of Ghetto Lodz", Chaim Rumkowski, about him and her book about those terrifying experiences.

We commemorate the anniversary of the longest lasting and 2nd largest Ghetto, Lodz, in Poland, with its 250 thousand martyred Jewish inhabitants, on this the anniversary of its liquidation  

Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with Dr Itay Binyamin Zutra, lecturer in Yiddish language and literature at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada.

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

Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with Fleur Kuhn a graduate student of amongst others Yiddish literature at the Sorbonne University in Paris.