Yiddish Lives

Hey folks,

Unfortunately, I’m still the only one adding content, but hopefully we can change that. If you need any help, just use our contact page to get ahold of us.

Since the site at this point is really geared at English speakers, I added a video in English explaining the point of this project. You can see it here:

Also, since the whole point is to preserve some unique family treasures, I recorded a rare song “Ven ikh nem” about a man announcing that he’s going to leave him family to join the Bolshevic army:

Dzhankoye is another song we always sang at family get-togethers. It’s righteous indignation at how people sees the Jews as elite intellectuals makes for a song that’s fun to sing:

And yes, I had to add a reaaaaallly ooooooldddd Jewish Joke about Mrs. Megillicuttie. Even Bart The Dog wanted in on the making of this one.