Jennifer A. Stern
By Jennifer A. Stern
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Forverts in English 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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Forverts in English This Boston synagogue looks like a New England church but murals reveal its Jewish identity
The hundred-year-old Vilna Shul is one of a handful that has retained its folk art-painted walls
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Forverts in English Magnificent permanent exhibit opens at Amherst’s Yiddish Book Center
Among the many displays are a 1918 Yiddish linotype press and a replica of the great Yiddish writer Y.L. Peretz’s study in Warsaw
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Forverts in English An exciting, new way of thinking about refugee modernist artists like Yonia Fain
The exhibit "Modern-Ish" shows us how to categorize Eastern European Jewish artists who were forced to flee their homelands
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Forverts in English Blending Yiddish calligraphy with watercolor, drawing and collage
Czech-born Karolina Kašeová's art includes original portraits of renowned authors created out of their own words.
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Forverts in English Why music scholar Henry Sapoznik returned a painting he won at a raffle
'The Wedding' is one of hundreds of paintings that self-taught Jewish artist Mayer Kirshenblatt did of his hometown, Opatow
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Forverts in English The tragic fate of a young Jewish children’s orchestra in 1933
This rare glimpse of a happy moment in prewar Jewish community life offers no hint of what lay ahead
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Forverts in English The art teacher who inspired Marc Chagall to paint Jewish men and women
Yehuda Pen showed his students that a specifically Jewish “fine” art was both possible and desirable.
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