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The animated learning tool provides a contemporary approach to Yiddish instead of sending it to the dustbin of history.
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Books When a Jewish language is lost, we lose more than just words
In 'Always Carry Salt,' Samantha Ellis races against time to try to save her Judeo-Iraqi Arabic language and culture
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Fast Forward A new Hebrew press in Berlin argues that Israel doesn’t own the language
Altneuland is the first non-religious Hebrew publishing house to set up outside of Israel since the state was established
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Yiddish World Yiddish street signs: Commemoration or marginalization?
A “memory landscape” in Berlin’s former Yiddish-speaking neighborhood revives the dream of Yiddish as an official minority language of Germany
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Yiddish World How a group of retirees uses the Forverts podcast to learn Yiddish
For each text, the author designs activities to promote comprehension as I did when I taught Spanish to college students.
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Opinion Why do so many Jews support Israel — but reject ‘Zionism’?
The political idea that once referred to Jewish self-determination has been distorted by occupation and bad faith
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Yiddish World ‘Faust’ author Goethe’s fascination with Yiddish
As a boy, Goethe visited Jewish schools in Frankfurt, and even attended a circumcision and a Jewish wedding
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Culture How ‘Spiritually Israeli’ became a slur that isn’t really about Israel
The phrase is applied to the Dodgers World Series win, Taylor Swift and other non-Jewish phenomena
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