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Forverts in English How this NYC high school student came to Yiddish
Read this article in Yiddish To be honest, I was never interested in learning Yiddish. Before the pandemic, it was a dead language to me, something that my parents and grandparents spoke, and before that – my great-grandparents. I have Israeli family, so Hebrew is familiar to me. Yiddish is not. I could understand enough…
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Yiddish ווידעאָ: אַן אָרעמע זאָגערין האָט שטאַרק פֿאַראיבל אויף די רײַכע ייִדענעסVideo: A penniless women’s prayer leader vents her anger at wealthy women
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