Online trivia league poses question about the Forverts
When asked what language the paper is in, respondents gave various answers including Tagalog which is spoken in the Philippines
When asked what language the paper is in, respondents gave various answers including Tagalog which is spoken in the Philippines
The delivery truck with Hebrew lettering was spotted on a film set on the Lower East Side
The small but important differences in how we spell Yiddish words today
David Stromberg, the Yiddishist behind a new collection of the Nobel Prize winner's essays for the Forward, talks about the challenges of bringing his work to a modern audience
During the Holocaust and its aftermath, the Forward's Seeking Relatives helped thousands when no one else could
The episode saw the acclaimed actor tearing up as he learned about his Yiddish-language journalist grandfather
Read this article in Yiddish. Transatlantic Russian Jewishness: Ideological Voyages of the Yiddish Daily Forverts in the First Half of the Twentieth Century Gennady Estraikh Academic Studies Press, $119, 354 pp In the history of American journalism, the Forverts is a genuine outlier. Over the course of the first half of the last century, the…
Read this article in Yiddish. When I heard that the Pew Research Center was releasing its new report on American Jewish identity, and that it had added more measures of expressing Jewishness than it did in its landmark 2013 study, I was sure that “learning Yiddish” or “engaging in Yiddish culture” would be included. After…
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