News and Events

See our show "The Big Bupkis! A Complete Gentile's Guide to Yiddish Vaudeville" at the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan this February 18th and 19th. Click here for reservations. Produced in conjunction with the New Yiddish Rep. Those who would like to provide extra support for the Congress, New Yiddish Rep and JCC may purchase premium seats to the show, for which they will receive a copy of our newly published Yiddish Biographical Dictionary of Soviet Yiddish Writers, as well as indemnification against participating in the show (including but not limited to public ridicule, spraying with seltzer, hitting with custard pies, and mock beheading). Premium seats are $250, $180 of which is tax deductible. Please email us at kongres@earthlink.net for information.

Lexicon of Soviet Yiddish Writers

Our most recent publication is the late Chaim Beider's Biographical Dictionary of Yiddish Writers in the Soviet Union. Beider passed away in 2003, so Boris Sandler and Gennady Estraikh edited the final edition, now available through our bookstore, the CYCO. The volume is 464 pages, containing entries on 487 Soviet Yiddish writers, some of whom have never been mentioned in any lexicon. The book also includes a trilingual (Yiddish-English-Russian) glossary of Soviet Yiddish terms compiled by Estraikh.

• Read Nahma Sandrow's meditation on the book and our annual memorial for the Soviet Yiddish writers executed on August 12th, 1952.
• Read the Forverts article in Yiddish.
• Hear commentary in Mikhl Baran's Yiddish
• Forward article on our work in the field of Yiddish
• Congress mentioned in national news in yet another article on the so called "Yiddish revival"
• Read Rokhl Kafrissen on why we need more continuity and less revival.
• A trip to the Yiddish Artists and Friends Actors' Club