The Forward

Andrea Pancur, singer who bridged German and Yiddish song traditions, dies at 54

(JTA) — Andrea Pancur, a Munich-based singer, teacher and activist who helped bridge the worlds of German and Yiddish song culture — and who served as role model for women in the world of klezmer ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

The Place of Yiddish Among Near-german Languages: Yiddish Section for German Academy’s Institute of

The German Academy (Akademie zur wissenschaftlischen Erforschung und zur Pflege des Deutschtums) has published the draft programme of a projected Yiddish Section of its Near-Languages Institute. The ...
The Forward

You can now hear people speaking Yiddish in bars all over Berlin

At a Berlin bar on a recent Wednesday evening, several patrons kept glancing curiously at the group of eight people around a neighboring table. The members of the group were chatting in a language ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

‘The Tongue Is the Pen of the Heart': As Yiddish ‘Dies,’ Yiddish Lives

In his precise, already canonical The Meaning of Yiddish (University of California Press, 1990), Israeli-American scholar Benjamin Harshav recalled how Max Weinreich (1894-1969), author of the ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Andrea Pancur, singer who bridged German and Yiddish song traditions, dies at 54

A Catholic with roots in Slovenia, she found connections between klezmer music and the folks songs of her native Bavaria. (JTA) — Andrea Pancur, a Munich-based singer, teacher and activist who helped ...