Alex Minkin
By Alex Minkin
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Yiddish World Why children in Rio de Janeiro are singing in Yiddish
A cultural rediscovery is underway, led through music, university courses and children’s education.
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Yiddish World A Unique Yiddish Day School: Melbourne’s Sholem Aleichem College
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. More than 40 years ago, ten families founded a Yiddish day school in Melbourne with just 10 children in attendance. Today, Sholem Aleichem College (known simply as “Sholem”) has 300 students and remains the only secular day school in the world where Yiddish is a required daily…
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