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In Weimar, a festival preserves Yiddish culture while reinventing it
The festival has grown into Europe’s largest, drawing hundreds to workshops and more than 10,000 concertgoers, organizers said.
- From August 8-15, Yiddish Summer Weimar hosted its festival week, drawing over 10,000 attendees to workshops and concerts as the program concluded its month-long run through August 15.
- Founder Alan Bern established the program to present Yiddish as a living culture rather than one destroyed by the Shoah, reflecting a language spoken by over 11 million people before 1939.
- Nearly 300,000 users enrolled in Duolingo's Yiddish course this year, while the academic journal Ingeveb cited over two dozen programs and festivals in 2026, reflecting a 21st-century renaissance.
- Located in Weimar—where Adolf Hitler reformed the Nazi Party in 1926—the festival now hosts international gatherings that Schmitges calls the perfect place for Yiddish culture among Europe's hochkulturen.
- Participants like volunteer Dan Kedem and teacher Eidel Malowicki view the festival as a bridge between worlds, with Bern estimating that at least half of all participants are not Jewish.
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In Weimar, Germany, a festival preserves Yiddish culture while reinventing it
In Weimar, Germany, where the streets once echoed with the notes and ideas of Bach, Liszt and Goethe, another European musical tradition has been reverberating for more than a quarter-century: Yiddish.
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In Weimar, a festival preserves Yiddish culture while reinventing it
In Weimar, Germany, where the streets once echoed with the notes and ideas of Bach, Liszt and Goethe, another European musical tradition has been reverberating for more than a quarter-century: Yiddish
·New York, United States
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