Aviya Kushner is the Forward’s language columnist and the author of Wolf Lamb Bomb and The Grammar of God.
Aviya Kushner
By Aviya Kushner
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Culture This visionary Jewish writer had several aliases, so it’s hard to know who she really was
There was a brilliance to Anna Margolin's writing, but also many great mysteries
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Culture What does it mean to be ‘Jew-ish’? How the term went from warm inside joke to national flashpoint
In the hands of George Santos and Kanye West, 'Jew-ish' means something very different than it used to
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Culture Why we should think twice before we call Hitler a ‘demon’
President Biden recently labeled Hitler 'demonic,' but Yiddish linguists say he could have chosen a better word
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Culture No, saying that someone ‘Jewed you down’ is not a compliment
There are plenty of excuses for uttering the slur, but none of them are valid
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Culture This vintage video of a Jewish boys choir has gone viral on TikTok — and it’s a joy to watch
When the Miami Boys Choir was recorded singing 'Yerushalayim,' no one anticipated that, more than a decade later, it would rack up hundreds of thousands of views
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Culture Where does the fascist ‘Sieg Heil’ Nazi German salute come from?
Some have traced the German salute origins back to Rome, but the truth is murkier than that
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Culture How a terrific collection of stories managed to escape Lithuania and survive
Chana Blankshteyn's work improbably emerges in a glorious new translation
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Culture Did Franz Kafka predict the COVID-19 pandemic?
And other questions raised by a new collection of the inscrutable author’s aphorisms
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