Forverts Staff
By Forverts Staff
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Yiddish World WATCH: Riki Rose makes Hasidic-style stuffed cabbage for Simchat Torah
Read this article in Yiddish. In her newest video, Yiddish social media star Riki Rose invites you into her kitchen as she prepares stuffed cabbage for Simchat Torah the way she learned it from her mother, Hungarian Hasidic-style. Although the recipe has many steps to it, Riki makes it look like fun!
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Yiddish World WATCH: Isabel Frey sings workers’ lament ‘My Resting Place’
Read this article in Yiddish The Forverts has released a music video featuring Isabel Frey performing Morris Rosenfeld’s haunting lament for Jewish workers, “Mayn Rue-Plats”, (My Resting Place). Rosenfeld, one of a group of American Yiddish labor poets known as the “sweatshop poets,” was a longtime Forverts staff writer. His poems, chief among them “My…
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Yiddish World Festival of Polish-Jewish food to be streamed online
Read this article in Yiddish Each fall the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw hosts a culinary festival Tisz (“table” in Yiddish), highlighting how closely Polish and Jewish culinary traditions are intertwined. This year’s program, to take place from September 30 to October 4, will include both in-person workshops in Warsaw…
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Yiddish World Vilna Partisan and Yiddish cultural activist Chayele Palevsky has died
Read this article in Yiddish Chayele Porus Palevsky, a longtime stalwart of New York’s Yiddish cultural scene, who worked tirelessly to preserve the memory of Jewish Vilna, died on September 20, the second day of Rosh Hashanah. Palevsky, one of the very last surviving Jews to have fought among the partisans of Vilna, passed away…
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Life Legacy Bintel: Should I bring my wife over from Russia if I’m in love with another woman?
The original Bintel Brief column was founded at the Forward in 1906 and ran through the 1980s. Written in Yiddish, letter writers sought advice on heartbreak, poverty, religious quarrels, family disputes, love triangles and more. Legacy Bintel revisits these original Bintel Brief letters. Many appear here in English for the first time. They have been…
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Life Should I drop out of school to help with my siblings?
The original Bintel Brief column was founded at the Forward in 1906 and ran through the 1980s. Written in Yiddish, letter writers sought advice on heartbreak, poverty, religious quarrels, family disputes, love triangles and more. Legacy Bintel revisits these original Bintel Brief letters. Many appear here in English for the first time. They have been…
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Life Legacy Bintel: 1922 Montreal sisters quarrel over nothing
The original Bintel Brief column was founded at the Forward in 1906 and ran through the 1980s. Written in Yiddish, letter writers sought advice on heartbreak, poverty, religious quarrels, family disputes, love triangles and more. Legacy Bintel revisits these original Bintel Brief letters. Many appear here in English for the first time. They have been…
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Yiddish World Zoominar: What makes Yiddish humor so Jewish?
Yiddish comedians and experts on Yiddish comedy spoke with Rukhl Schaechter, editor of the Forverts, about their work during a Zoominar organized by the Forward on Monday. Panelists Hy Wolfe, Michael Wex, Shane Baker, Allen Lewis Rickman and Yelena Shmulenson traded jokes and performed short monologues characteristic of Yiddish humor. Wolfe, longtime Yiddish theater actor…
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