Jennifer A. Stern
By Jennifer A. Stern
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Forverts in English Charles Dickens: A friend of the Jews?
A 1912 Yiddish newspaper article tried to simplify Charles Dickens' relationship with the Jews. The real story is messier, but far more interesting.
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Forverts in English Why the poet Anna Margolin wrote a 1915 column about actress Sarah Bernhardt’s leg
Margolin hoped it would help women think more about female courage, self-fulfillment and even self-sacrifice for a higher cause.
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Forverts in English Striking illustrations set in a timeless shtetl
Joseph Budko created his art in the golden age for illustrated Jewish books between 1910 and 1940.
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Forverts in English Eating Chinese meant proving that the shtetl had been left behind
A study done by two sociologists helps explain how this American Jewish tradition relates to fundamental issues of identity.
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Forverts in English Why you never heard of the avant-garde Jewish artist Sarah Shor
She survived pogroms, Stalin and more — by safely avoiding the spotlight
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Forverts in English The time a Christian woman turned to the Bintel Brief for advice
Her question and the editor's response reveal much about the emotional and sexual lives of women in the 1940s.
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Forverts in English Issachar Ber Ryback’s art is a revelation!
On March 6, when the horror and shock of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine were still intensely fresh, the Forverts ran an article about Kropyvnytskyi-born Jewish artist Issachar Ber Ryback. I was instantly hooked by the accompanying image: an Old World Jewish craftsman, laboring in a candle-lit workshop. When I began to read through the Yiddish…
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