Zoom Party Will Be Held For The Congress for Jewish Culture's New Website
Beginning this month, they will be adding a massive number of publications never before available on any digital format.
By: Stephi Wild Oct. 10, 2023
The Congress for Jewish Culture has unveiled their exciting, revamped website in honor of their 75th Anniversary: http://www.CongressForJewishCulture.org. Beginning this month, they will be adding a massive number of publications never before available on any digital format, with search features and substantial English translations. These will include highly valuable research materials, works of fiction and plays, as well as photographs, artworks and archival audio and visual recordings. The website will join these historic materials to the Congress’s current projects, demonstrating the continuity of Yiddish culture in the 21st century.
Tonight (Tuesday) at 7PM EDT, the Congress will host a special live event via Zoom featuring Joshua Fogel (Translator of the massive Leksikon Project), Elizabeth Shulman-Nadolny (Designer of the new Congress for Jewish Culture logo), Shane Baker (Executive Director, renowned performer on the contemporary Yiddish stage and acclaimed literary translator of the Yiddish WAITING FOR GODOT), and Rokhl Kafrissen (playwright and cultural critic for Tablet Magazine).
The Congress for Jewish Culture was founded in 1948 to promote Yiddish language and culture, with a philosophy that the printed word is the face of a language, the spoken word its beating heart, the song its soul. The Congress joins artists and individuals to the Yiddish community through live programming, web media, and print publications with resources for all levels of Yiddish understanding.
They have presented theatrical works worldwide, including the Off-Broadway smash TEVYE SERVED RAW and most recently Yelena Shmulenson’s NIGHT OF THE MURDERED POETS. The Congress for Jewish Culture was founded by luminaries of Yiddish letters including poet and dramatist H. Leivick (author of THE GOLEM), novelist Joseph Opatoshu (author of ROMANCE OF A HORSETHIEF, basis for the 1971 film starring Yul Brynner) and others.
The new website development, a colossal literary and technical undertaking, will provide previously unavailable functionality for a new Library and Leksikon section of the site, including access to their magnum opus, the invaluable eight-volume LEKSIKON FUN DER NAYER YIDISHER LITERATUR (BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF MODERN YIDDISH LITERATURE) and the 2011 supplement on Soviet Yiddish writers, which contains thousands of entries on Yiddish writers, making up the most comprehensive reference source for Yiddish literary research.
The numerous plays which will be added throughout this project include DER DIBEK (THE DYBBUK) by Sh. Ansky, DOS GROYSE GEVINS (THE BIG WIN) by Sholem Aleichem, and other classics of the Yiddish theater in the Congress’s renowned editions featuring clear, modern Yiddish texts.
The Leksikon will appear side by side with Professor Joshua Fogel's Leksikon translation project and will incorporate a host of new digital tools allowing them to integrate the latest scholarship and data on these writers.
The new website is created and designed for the Congress for Jewish Culture by Jamie Katz with Shane Baker and consultant Rokhl Kafrissen.
To register for tonight’s Zoom party, visit
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAkduGqqTstGNUN0mSpl0igagphR4uK61UT#/registration. Registration is free.
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