Sheva Zucker
By Sheva Zucker
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	Yiddish World FICTION: Writer Yonia Fain’s haunting story about the painter Johannes Vermeer
The short story, here in English translation, allows us a peek into the mind of the renowned refugee writer and artist
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	Yiddish World When the enemy is your brother
The war in Ukraine recalls Avrom Reyzen’s story about a Jew who’s worried that ammunition he's helping create might kill his own brother.
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	Opinion A Protest to Leaders Of the Ashkenazi Community in Mexico
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. I had the pleasure of working and visiting Mexico — specifically Jewish Mexico — several years ago. I am familiar with its Yiddish teachers and some of these teachers and members of the community were my students in courses I gave there at that time. Several weeks…
 
		
		
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