Yiddish poetry is coming to Yeshivat Hadar
Basya Schechter and Avi Fox-Rosen will perform Itsik Manger’s ‘Bible Songs’ at the renowned institution in Manhattan
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Popular Yiddish learning tool now offering small grants
Yiddish teachers, students and parents praise YiddishPOP for the fun way it presents its lessons.
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VIDEO: Hasidic Jew’s trip to Iran to find Queen Esther’s tomb
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A concert in memory of theater pioneer Joseph Papp
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An important Yiddish learning tool has been added to the Forward website
The goal is to help readers correctly pronounce Yiddish words that are derived from Hebrew and Aramaic
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How my grandparents met: a Yiddish-American romance
Harry watched, captivated, as Lil spoke to the crowd at a peace demonstration
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My mother’s wig making salon in the 1920s
She would string the hair up on a long thread knotted at the top and start making a wig out of it.
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No fighting on the day before Shavuot!
Two cousins argue about the meaning of the holiday until they both end up dreaming about each other's perspective
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What the Hasidic shtiebel meant for Jewish male immigrants
The intimate prayer room was often filled with camaraderie and a strong sense of belonging
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Re ‘A photo of my bubbe when Jewish stores still had Yiddish signs’ by Jennifer A. Stern
Two readers add their observations of the photo, taken on the lower East Side in the early 1930s
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How Yiddish found a home in Sweden (online lecture in Yiddish)
Yiddish scholar Jan Schwarz will describe how “mame-loshn” is supported in academia, media and publishing
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