Miriam Oxenhandler Newman
By Miriam Oxenhandler Newman
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Yiddish World New Los Angeles Yiddish scene continues a long tradition
Many Yiddish writers came to L.A. at the turn of the 20th century as part of a health-seeking movement
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Yiddish World New musical will highlight the remarkable creativity of Jews in the ghettos and camps
After the war, partisan fighter Shmerke Kaczerginski visited displaced persons camps and recorded the songs that survivors shared with him.
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Yiddish World A summer reunion in the country, Jewish socialist style
Camp Hemshekh, which closed in 1978, was the summer home for hundreds of campers, many of them children of Holocaust survivors
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