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This online event brought together three artists who are also involved with language revitalization and reclamation to discuss the potential of visual art to raise awareness about endangered languages: B.A. Van Sise, Author and photographic artist Lokosh (Joshua D. Hinson), artist and Executive Officer, Division of Language Preservation, Chickasaw Nation Ruben Shimonov, a calligraphic artist wh...

Here's Finn sharing a little bit about Pizza Ebraica, a pastry from Italy.

Judeo-Alsatian speaker Alain Kahn shares some Alsatian Yiddish expressions, translates them, and speaks about the language in standard Alsatian. We want to thank Auden Finch and Alain Kahn for working to put this video together.

The first two lyrics of a 7-verse Piyut written by Rabbi Shalem Shabazi. Each verse is either in Judeo-Arabic or Hebrew. Popular in happy gatherings, especially wedding celebrations. Thank you to Naama Perel Tzadok and Shani Oshri for this lovely event! אִם נִנְעֲלוּ דַּלְתֵי נְדִיבִים דַּלְתֵּי מָרוֹם לֹא נִנְעֲלוּ אֵל חַי מְרוֹמָם עַל כְּרוּבִים כֻּלָם בְּרוּחוֹ יַעֲלוּ

Persian traditional song, popular both among Jewish and non-Jewish Persians. Thank you to Shani Oshri and Naama Perel Tzadok for this lovely event! Lyrics: Kiss me, kiss me For last time Farewell , may God keep you safe Because I'm moving towards destiny Our Spring is over The pasts are past I'm looking for destiny In the midst of the storm allied with the sailors Desperate , I must cross the s...

Lament fragments about lost children. The lament sounds the voice of the mothers whose children disappeared in the first years of Aliya to the Land of Israel and to this day are waiting and expecting to know what happened to them. Written and inspired by texts from lamentations collected by Dr. Vared Madar, with the assistance of Dr. Uri Melamed, in her doctoral thesis "Yemenian women's songs f...

A women’s traditional love song, in which the singer compares her lover to the most expensive sesame seed. Later, Sarah Levi Tanai transformed this song into a Hebrew version, inspired by the Yemenite motives, in a similar meaning “Mahmad levavi” , "the one that my heart loves." Thank you to Shani Oshri and Naama Perel Tzadok for this lovely event! Lyrics: Ya habib ya labib Ya gilgilan alchezan...

The woman who gave birth in Yemen was like a queen. For a month she sat on her seat and the women of the neighborhood would help her, bring her food and come sing to her and among other things they used to sing this song, which describes the birth. Thank you to Naama Perel Tzadok and Shani Oshri for the lovely event! Lyrics: ی او الدة / The birth-giver/ יַא ואלדְּהֵ - ن)َ بدَأ بِاسْم ََّ We wil...

This is a love song of a daughter to her mother that was traditionally sung at the daughter's henna ceremony, before her marriage. In the song she praises the devotion of her mother who raised her, loved and cared for her every need. Thank you to Naama Perel Tzadok and Shani Oshri for this lovely event!

The song was sung and orally transferred from mother to daughter in all generations. It is sung before a wedding, at the mikvah, and at every marriage-related event. The song talks about the early marriage phenomena: many girls who reached the age of 12-14 would be sold to an intended groom who paid money for the girl and thus they would be married off. The girls didn't understand and sometimes...

Here's JLP staff member Sam and his grandmother preparing haliq, an Iranian version of charoset. Haliq is in Lishan Didan, the language spoken in Urmia, Iran. B'teavon!

Jewish Languages, From One Generation To The Next

Purim Kirtan | पुरीमचे किर्तन / Purim Song | पुरीमचे गीत

Zammurta Asheq - "Love Song" Lishan Didan

Yemenite Jewish Women’s Songs: Lecture and Concert by Naama Perel-Tzadok and Shani Oshri

Incorporating Sephardi/Mizrahi content into Jewish communal life: lunch and learn with JLP & JIMENA

Language Shift in Jewish Communities

Spiel or Spiln? A Purim Linguistic Story

Jewish names of vehicles - spoof lecture by Sarah Bunin Benor, Purim 5784

Writing Yiddish in Multiple Scripts

Jewish Swedish Dialectal Variation

Beyond Bteavon - Food Blessings in Jewish Languages

Jewish Languages on the Stage: Directors', Actors', and Scholars' Panel 2-11-24

Lachoudisch - An Argot You Don't Know

Weinukkah and Thanksgivukkah

Modern Jewish Languages

A Judeo-Italian Sukkot

A Bit on Judeo-Catalan

Columbia University Yiddish Cabaret 1999