Jennifer A. Stern
By Jennifer A. Stern
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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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Yiddish World 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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Books 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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Yiddish World 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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Yiddish World 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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