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That time Yiddishists met extraterrestrials a short while ago in a galaxy not far away
It was a normal summer internship at the Yiddish Book Center ... until the Jedi invaded our turf
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Books Alice in Yiddishland
Translating classic children’s books into Yiddish is becoming a trend these days. First there was “The Hobbit,” which was recently translated by retired computer programmer Barry Goldstein. Now there’s “Alice in Wonderland,” which has been rendered into Yiddish by Israeli children’s author Adina Bar-El. Bar-El, 66, who lives on Moshav Nir Yisrael, is the author…
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Books Author Blog: A Departure From the Traditional
Jan Aronson is the illustrator of the “The Bronfman Haggadah” published by Rizzoli. Born in New Orleans, New York-based artist Jan Aronson has had more than 70 solo and group exhibitions. Read more about Jan here. Her blog posts are featured on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book Council and My Jewish Learning’s…
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Books Author Blog: Whose Story Is It?
Nancy Richler’s previous novel, “Your Mouth Is Lovely” won the 2003 Canadian Jewish Book Award for fiction. Her newest novel, “The Imposter Bride,” is now available. Her blog posts are featured on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book Council and My Jewish Learning’s Author Blog Series. For more information on the series, please…
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The Jews Who Invented (And Continue To Reinvent) Fashion
‘I studied molecular biology and painting, so taking photos and writing about beauty was probably the last thing I ever figured I would do,” Aimee Blaut, 29, tells me of the road she took to founding the popular blog The Formula, a lifestyle site featuring interviews with fashion tastemakers and industry people about their regimens,…
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Why Israel Is a World Leader in Catchy Political Party Names
A Forward reader who modestly asks to remain anonymous writes: “As an American Jew, my sources of information on Israeli politics are from English-language publications, the Forward being one of them. During the recent elections in Israel, I read about the Jewish Home party — and also about the Habayit Hayehudi [“Jewish Home” in Hebrew]…
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The Jewish First Lady at Legendary Lawmaker Wyatt Earp’s O.K. Corral
● Lady at the O.k. Corral: The True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp By Ann Kirschner Harper Collins, 304 pages, $27.99 As a kid, I perfected a strategy for beating anyone at “Twenty Questions.” I always chose not someone famous, but the wife of someone famous. My opponent would say, “Was she an actress?” No….
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War on Yiddish in Israel
Forward Looking Back brings you the stories that were making news in the Forward’s Yiddish paper 100, 75, and 50 years ago. Check back each week for a new set of illuminating, edifying and sometimes wacky clippings from the Jewish past. 100 Years Ago 1913 New Jersey’s Jews are furious after discovering that a number…
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Books Shalom Auslander Wins JQ-Wingate Prize
Shalom Auslander was awarded the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize — the United Kingdom’s top prize for Jewish literature — for his debut novel, “Hope: a Tragedy”, at a February 27 event at London’s Jewish Book Week. Diana Reich, chair of the JQ-Wingate Prize judging panel, praised Auslander’s work as “bursting with raw talent, shockingly irreverent, [and]…
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Books Why Marshall Was Never on the Supreme Court
Earlier this week, M. M. Silver wrote about the riches in Louis Marshall’s archive and explored why it took so long for someone to write a full-length biography of this important figure in American Jewish history. His blog posts are featured on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book Council and My Jewish Learning’s…
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Sometimes Isaiah Berlin Felt Like a Fox, Sometimes He Felt Like a Hedgehog
‘The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” Rarely have so few words — a fragment of poetry from the sixth-century Greek poet Archilochus — come to mean so much. Sixty years ago, with the publication of his essay “The Hedgehog and the Fox,” Isaiah Berlin yoked these little critters to…
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Books Author Blog: Transforming the Magical
Earlier this week, Baruch and Judy Sterman wrote about their obsession with blue. Their blog posts are featured on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book Council and My Jewish Learning’s Author Blog Series. For more information on the series, please visit: We were sitting in an upscale café in Northern Tel Aviv waiting…
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