Jennifer A. Stern
By Jennifer A. Stern
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Yiddish World A photo of my bubbe when Jewish stores still had Yiddish signs
As far as I know, this photograph is my family's only physical link to our Yiddish-speaking past
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Yiddish World Parisian theater stages Isaac Bashevis Singer’s ‘Golem’ in Yiddish and French
A diverse group of French, Israeli and Palestinian actors perform in Yiddish in Amos Gitai's contemporary staging
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Yiddish World Reviving Jewish folk tunes that were nearly lost forever
Musicologist Zisl Slepovitch publishes music recorded in the 1930s in today’s Belarus and Ukraine
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Culture Paintings of unbearable life in the Lodz Ghetto
An exhibit in Warsaw displays artwork created by Jews as a strategy for staying alive.
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Yiddish World Exhibit highlights the powerful impact of ‘The Dybbuk’ for the past 100 years
The play about love and supernatural possession symbolizes both the destruction of European Jewry and Jewish resilience
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Yiddish World Online conference to focus on Jewish life in prewar Lithuania
Among the topics discussed: How did Lithuanian Yiddish writers living abroad help spread their own dialect?
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Yiddish World What kids wrote in the Yiddish press about their summer vacations
3 city children reveal what they discovered in the countryside and how they felt about being there
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Yiddish World Yiddishland California seeks generous donations to keep it in seaside La Jolla
If the Yiddish culture organization doesn’t raise $120,000 by December 31, it will be forced to move to another state.
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