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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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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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)
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A photo of my bubbe when Jewish stores still had Yiddish signs
As far as I know, this photograph is my family's only physical link to our Yiddish-speaking past
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This synagogue ‘gets’ why you need Yiddish on Yom Hashoah
Of the six million Jews who were killed in the Holocaust, 85% were Yiddish speakers.
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VIDEO: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising commemoration highlights women ghetto fighters
Speakers at the event described in gripping detail the heroic acts by women, including young girls, in the resistance
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Philanthropist Elie Hirschfeld gifts domains Yiddish.com and Yiddish.org to the Forward
Having these domains will enable the Forward to draw more readers and viewers to its Yiddish-related content
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The Forverts is going on vacation. Here’s how to access our content while we’re away.
Check out the links to our English and Yiddish articles, easy-to-read Tidbits column, Yiddish Wordle and videos
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Will Chaim Grade’s novel ‘Sons and Daughters’ come out in Yiddish?
The new English translation is drawing praise but surprisingly, the original Yiddish version was never released in book form
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What pre-pesach cleaning was like in the shtetl
The late Mayer Kirshenblatt, from Opatow (Apt), recalls his parents replacing the straw in their mattresses.
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