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If you’re looking for Yiddish in Boston, Workmen’s Circle is the address you need. Throughout the country, Workmen’s Circle has been a leader in preserving and promoting Yiddishkayt.
Yiddish connects us to a thousand years of Jewish history. In our Boston community we strive to integrate the language and culture into a living, authentic, creative, and contemporary Jewish identity.
- If you’re looking to immerse yourself in Yiddish language activities, take a class, join a conversation group, or perhaps attend a Yiddish lecture.
- If you’re drawn to Eastern European Jewish culture, we invite you to try a taste of Yiddish, through our chorus, sing-alongs, klezmer jam, and educational programs.
Yiddish language and culture inspired one of the most prolific eras in Jewish literature, poetry, music and theater. Yiddish was the language of the 2.5 million Jewish immigrants who came to America from Eastern Europe, their hardships and their ideals. Yiddish was the language of the Jewish labor movement and the struggle for rights, equality, and freedom. And still, today, Yiddish culture inspires popular American humor, music, language, art. We invite you to explore this rich cultural inheritance!
As our members say:
“Yiddish was always the language that my grandparents spoke when they didn’t want the children to understand. Now I’m learning to speak Yiddish on my own. If we lose the language we will lose piece of who we are.”
“I love all things Yiddish! But we can’t depend on only museums or the halls of academia to keep Yiddish alive. I love that Workmen’s Circle puts me in touch with other people who are making Yiddish a part of who they are.”
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