BEYLE: The Artist and Her Legacy Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman was a woman whose life and work bridged the old world with the new. Following in the footsteps of her activist father and folk singer mother, she dedicated her life to preserving and transmitting Yiddish language and culture. Her influence reached across continents until her death in 2013, and lives on in a...
BEYLE: The Artist and Her Legacy Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman was a woman whose life and work bridged the old world with the new. Following in the footsteps of her activist father and folk singer mother, she dedicated her life to preserving and transmitting Yiddish language and culture. Her influence reached across continents until her death in 2013, and lives on in a...
My Silence Ended With a Rhyme Sarah Pogreb is a phenomenon of world literature. She started writing poetry at the age of 60 and immediately received recognition from prominent Russian poets David Samoilov and Yuri Levitansky. Sarah was “discovered” by the famous actor Zinovy Gerdt who admired her work until the end of his life. In 1991, at the age of...
My Silence Ended With a Rhyme Sarah Pogreb is a phenomenon of world literature. She started writing poetry at the age of 60 and immediately received recognition from prominent Russian poets David Samoilov and Yuri Levitansky. Sarah was “discovered” by the famous actor Zinovy Gerdt who admired her work until the end of his life. In 1991, at the age of...
My Silence Ended With a Rhyme Sarah Pogreb is a phenomenon of world literature. She started writing poetry at the age of 60 and immediately received recognition from prominent Russian poets David Samoilov and Yuri Levitansky. Sarah was “discovered” by the famous actor Zinovy Gerdt who admired her work until the end of his life. In 1991, at the age of...
Legends & Legacies: A Story of a Community ‘Legends & Legacies: A Story of a Community’ is an 8-part documentary series on the history and contribution of South African Jews.
Legends & Legacies: A Story of a Community ‘Legends & Legacies: A Story of a Community’ is an 8-part documentary series on the history and contribution of South African Jews.
Who Will Remain? Attempting to better understand her grandfather Avrom Sutzkever, Israeli actress Hadas Kalderon travels to Lithuania using her grandfather’s diary to trace his early life in Vilna and his survival during the Holocaust. Sutzkever was an acclaimed Yiddish poet — described by the New York Times as the “greatest poet of the Holocaust”— whose verse drew...