Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath
By Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath
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Yiddish World WATCH: How to make Turkish charoset
Most Ashkenazi Jews make charoset with apples, nuts and wine but in Turkey, the recipe is quite different. Here Gitl Schaechter Viswanath demonstrates how Sephardic Jews prepare it with dates and oranges.
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Yiddish World In Memory Of 9/11: A Picture Of September Twelfth
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. The poem, written in Yiddish by Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath, was translated by Zackary Sholem Berger. A Picture of September Twelfth In the spitefully beautiful day you hung up a thousand copies of my beautiful photo. Extremely abridged bio, dry statistics, kids on my lap. My smile, eternally warm,…
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Culture WATCH: Preparing Indian Lemon Rice – In Yiddish!
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Yiddish World Yiddish Teacher And Archivist Gella Schweid Fishman Has Died
This article originally appeared in the Forverts. The well-known Yiddish teacher, communal activist and unforgettable advocate for Yiddish and Yiddish culture Gella Schweid Fishman died at her home in the Riverdale section of the Bronx on Tuesday, May 16. She was 90 years old. Fishman was born in New York City to immigrant parents. She…
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