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The Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring, founded in 1900, fosters Jewish identity and participation in Jewish life amongst its members through Jewish, especially Yiddish, culture and education, friendship, mutual aid and the pursuit of social and economic justice.



The Forward is a legendary name in American journalism and a revered institution in American Jewish life. Launched as a Yiddish-languagedaily newspaper on April 22, 1897, the Forward entered the din of New York's immigrant press as a defender of trade unionism and moderate, democratic socialism. The Forward family of newspapers -- English, Russian, and the original Yiddish Forverts -- continues to carry on the founding vision of Abraham Cahan, serving together as the voice of the American Jew and the conscience of the community.

ADLERFANTASIA: Through the alchemy of character masks, and the wonder of klezmer music, two storytellers transport us across three continents to experience hundreds of people, places and myriad cultures from the fascinating life of Jacob P. Adler.

BuzzGuide.com provides quality information on entertainment, recreation, and enrichment in an easy to use format for Families, Adults, and Tourist to the NY and Tri-State Area.

Der Bay fosters the preservation and continued propagation of the Yiddish language (mame-loshn) and the associated Yiddish culture via the International Association of Yiddish Clubs.

University of Pennsylvania's Robert and Molly Freedman Jewish Music Archive is a catalogue of over 28,000 Yiddish and other Jewish songs and albums from the Freedman collection at the University of Pennsylvania Library.

In the Jewish ghettos of Poland and Lithuania during World War II, a world of dislocation, terror and death, cabaret music thrived. Jewish performers tuned these cosmopolitan songs in a local key satirical and elegiac, political and personal, angry and heartsick. Together they created something rare, scarcely conceivable art at the edge of the abyss: Ghetto Tango.

GOLDFADEN'S LEGACY
is a musical romp that celebrates the songs, stars and stories of Yiddish Theater, from the wine cellars of Romania to Tin Pan Alley and the Broadway stage.

HaReshima, or the Jewish Internet Portal, has an extensive list of Jewish and Israel sites on the web.

The JCC in Manhattan incorporates what is common to us all. Our desire to grow, to replenish, to expand. To strengthen, take stock, to embark on new paths and reconsider old ones, whatever our age or background.

Search the entire text of Diane Romm's popular guide to the Jewish Internet, The Jewish Guide to the Internet, online and get updates as well.

The Jewish WebSight is an interactive information and resource center that makes accessible Jewish culture, traditions and values to readers with various Jewish backgrounds.

From Hawaii to Hong Kong, JewishNetwork.com has a free list of Jewish events worldwide.

The Komediant tells the sad and funny saga of the famous theater family of the Bursteins, and also sheds light on the short, stormy but charming history of the popular Yiddish theater.

Long Island Jewish Links is supported by the Suffolk Jewish Communal Council and the Conference of Jewish Organizations of Nassau County, which are umbrella and coordinating organizations, representing over 30 Jewish organizations and agencies on Long Island.



Milken Archive and The Jewih Theological Seminary present ONLY IN AMERICA: Jewish Music in a Land of Freedom: an international conference-festival heralding the 350th Anniversary of American Jewry, November 7-11, 2003, New York City. On Monday, November 10, 2003, they will acknowledge Chana Mlotek for her distinguished achievements in the research and study of Yiddish song and her valuable contributions to the field of Jewish ethnology.

Join The Lower East Side Conservancy for a tour of the Jewish Lower East Side of New York City, the cradle of modern Jewish cultural life in America!

Our walking tours, bus tours and special events feature visits to historic synagogues, kosher food stores and Judaica stores. Come celebrate Jewish heritage the Lower East Side way!

The Museum of Jewish Heritage exists to educate people of all ages and backgrounds about the 20th century Jewish experience before, during, and after the Holocaust.

The National Yiddish Book Center is a vibrant, non-profit organization working to rescue Yiddish and other modern Jewish books and celebrate the culture they contain. Supported by 30,000 members, it is now the largest and fastest-growing Jewish cultural organization in America.

NYC & Company, which has been in operation since 1935 as the New York Convention & Visitors Bureau, is a private, nonprofit organization with a current membership of more than 1,200 businesses.

The Second Avenue Deli is the legendary Lower East Side kosher deli serving traditional Jewish delicacies since 1954.

The mission of The Shtetl Foundation is to document and celebrate the rich and vibrant Jewish History in Europe before its destruction during the Holocaust with the building of a full-size replica of a typical East-European Shtetl in Rishon Le-Zion, Israel.

Shtetl gives a comprehensive overview of Yiddish language and culture through a virtual tour of a shtetl.

Tikkun Magazine provides a space for both affiliated and non-affiliated Jews who seek to renew their Judaism, and a space for Jews and non-Jews alike to shape a politics out of spiritual values.

A Traveling Jewish Theatre's mission is to create and perform original works of theatre, as an ensemble and in collaboration with theatre artists from a variety of cultural and ethnic backgrounds, that contribute to a generous vision of the human condition.

The Yiddish Music Hall is designed to serve and support all Yiddish Music enthusiasts, students and performers. At Save the Music's Yiddish Music Hall, their goal is to bring old and new generations together, to share and enjoy the same music and traditions.

A co-production of Sound Portraits Productions and Living Traditions, the Yiddish Radio Project is dedicated to rescuing every surviving recording from the golden age of Yiddish radio and to disseminating knowledge and interest in the forgotten radio renaissance these recordings bring to life.

The Yiddish Voice is both a Yiddish-language radio show serving Boston's Yiddish-speaking community amd a Yiddish Internet resource serving the world. WUNR 1600 AM/Brookline, Massachusetts USA, Wednesdays 7:30-8:30 p.m.

"YIDDISHPIEL," the Yiddish Theater in Israel, was established with the intention of preserving the Yiddish language and culture, and recognizing its fundamental importance in the literary -- artistic creation of our nation.

Yugntruf Youth for Yiddish promotes Yiddish as an everyday, spoken language of home, family, friends, and neighborhood. We sponsor a number of Yiddish-focused activities, and our writers' circle, speakers, study groups, and parties provide a Yiddish-speaking environment year-round.