Natalie Wexler is a journalist focusing on education issues.
Natalie Wexler
By Natalie Wexler
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Forverts in English The candlesticks that almost didn’t make it to America
When I was a child, I was always intrigued by the ornate, slightly crooked silver candlesticks in my aunt’s dining room, maybe because they stood out from the otherwise clean, modern decor. At some point, my aunt told me they had belonged to her grandmother – my great-grandmother. After I got married, my aunt, who…
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Community Dozens Gather In D.C To Celebrate New Yiddish Translation of Blume Lempel’s Work
On Sunday afternoon, January 8, more than 80 people attended a reading and celebration in Washington, D.C., honoring the publication of a new book of translations of 24 stories by the remarkable Yiddish writer Blume Lempel (1907-1999). The event was held at Politics and Prose, a well-known Washington bookstore where President Obama and other Washington…
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