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Opera about a unique Yiddish dictionary to have its world premiere

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The Forward

An unprecedented, and unfinished, work of Yiddish scholarship is now an opera

When Ben Kaplan and Alex Weiser started working at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, they heard one of its essential legends in the form of a joke. The 100-year-old library and archive, whose ...
The Jewish Exponent

At YIVO, an Unfinished Yiddish Dictionary Gets the Last Word — as Opera

In the hallways of New York’s YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the story was told as a punchline: the great Yiddish dictionary project that took 25 years and never got beyond the first letter of ...
The New York Times

The Dueling Scholars Who Bickered a Yiddish Dictionary Into Existence

The Jewish tradition of debate is at the center of a new chamber opera about two scholars clashing over a Yiddish dictionary in the aftermath of World War II. By Rob Tannenbaum Arguments, on topics ...
Le télégramme

Musique yiddish. Une conférence et un concert en mars

Musicien, compositeur et comédien, Maurice Delaistier donnera une conférence, vendredi 8 mars, à 18 h 30, à la médiathèque de Penhars, autour de la musique yiddish. Nicolle Uzan, professeur au CMAD ...
The Jerusalem Post Blogs

At YIVO, an unfinished Yiddish dictionary gets the last word - as opera

"The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language," an original chamber opera, premieres at YIVO, dramatizing the post-Holocaust effort to preserve Yiddish through language. (New York Jewish Week) — In ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

At YIVO, an unfinished Yiddish dictionary gets the last word — as opera

To mark its centenary, YIVO stages a work about the competing visions for a monumental, and aborted, reference work about the language of Eastern Europe’s Jews. In the hallways of New York’s YIVO ...