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