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Yiddish World Themes of Warsaw’s Yiddish summer program are health and sports in Jewish history
The three-week program will feature Yiddish on all levels, both in person and online, and several lectures in English
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Yiddish World VIDEO: Playwright Jacob Gordin brought realism into the Yiddish theater
This month marks 170 years since the birth of the playwright who translated "The Kreutzer Sonata" and "King Lear" into Yiddish
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Yiddish World What popular children’s poet Kadya Molodowsky wrote about her mother
A recurrent theme in her work include the lives of Jewish women and girls and Jewish tradition in the face of modernity.
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Yiddish World See what’s going on in the new Yiddish community calendar
The calendar includes both in-person and online events, both in English and in Yiddish
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Yiddish World VIDEO: My escape from the Warsaw Ghetto
Henryk Robak, a native Yiddish speaker, remembers his time living in the Warsaw ghetto, and how he survived (includes English subtitles)
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Yiddish World VIDEO: Rabbi Yosef Ber Soloveitchik speaks about Passover
Soloveitchik, called The Rav by his students, is considered one of the most influential leaders of Modern Orthodoxy in 20th century America.
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Yiddish World What did Purim costumes look like in a pre-war Polish shtetl?
The boys in these photos are putting on a Purim shpiel (Purim play) in Apt (Opatow), Poland.
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Yiddish World Not your average book party: A month of Jewish summer camp in one night
The unique event in Brooklyn marks the launch of Sandra Fox's book about Jewish summer camps in postwar America
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