75 years after the birth of McCarthyism, scoundrel time returns to America
Clay Risen's 'Red Scare' recalls a societal plague that had been quieted but never fully conquered
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Yiddish World The concert where Paul Robeson was warned not to sing in Yiddish
When Soviet government leaders invited the singer to give a concert, he did something they didn't expect.
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Culture What we can learn from a communist puppy puppet
Labzik has a lot to teach us about the world
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Film & TV At the core of ‘Oppenheimer,’ a debate about how to be Jewish
Christopher Nolan’s explosive film centers a Jew committed to his faith and one who was indifferent to it
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Culture How a would-be revolution led to an exodus of Polish Jews
History cuts a love story short in a film about the student uprisings that rocked Poland in 1968
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Yiddish World The day my grandparents’ neighbor betrayed them
In 1951, Jeremy Stern's uncle was shocked to find his reputation ruined due to a pro-Communist Yiddish newspaper that was seen in his parents’ home
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Yiddish World Recalling the revolt against a Yiddish theater in Buenos Aires
In Buenos Aires, where I spent the first 30 years of my life, every public school student has heard of Boulogne Sur Mer, a small town in France, where the Argentine national hero Jose San Martin spent the last years of his life. Boulogne Sur Mer is also a street in Buenos Aires where even…
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Culture In this classic Jewish children’s book, a Yiddish-speaking dog learns to reject racism
As America continues its intensified reckoning with questions of racial justice, parents and educators are keenly aware of the need to speak to children about race in ways that feel authentic and relatable. The Jewish community can look to Yiddish literature for models of antiracist storytelling that took shape long before the storied alliances of…
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