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Yiddish World Restored Yiddish film ‘I Have Sinned’ captures pre-war Polish Jewry
An illegitimate birth is a major plot element, which would have been unthinkable in a contemporaneous American movie
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Film & TV She thought she knew her mother. Then she learned about the concentration camp
In the documentary ‘My Underground Mother,’ Marisa Fox uncovers her mother’s hidden past as a Holocaust survivor
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Film & TV What’s funny about living next to a Nazi?
In the attempted comedy ‘My Neighbor Adolf,’ a Holocaust survivor suspects his neighbor is Hitler — and befriends him anyway
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News Warsaw Jewish cemetery director fired amid clash over who controls the preservation of Poland’s Jewish past
Around 200,000 Jews are buried at the cemetery in Poland’s capital
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Opinion Why Poland’s president canceled his menorah lighting — and how the West helped make that happen
Ending the menorah lighting at Poland’s presidential palace isn’t a minor break with tradition — it’s the predictable result of years of accommodation with Holocaust distortion and antisemitism
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Yiddish World When roast goose was a Hanukkah delicacy, and latkes were fried in its schmaltz
They were slaughtered before Hanukkah in order to render enough fat to last through the winter, when butter was scarce.
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Yiddish World Maria Ka’s cosmic Yiddish music — from punk grit to starlight
Performing out of Gdańsk, Poland, the singer-songwriter fuses everyday Yiddish speech with celestial wonder
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Culture In a first-of-its-kind museum, mezuzahs keep memories of pre-war Poland alive
Aleksander Prugar and Helena Czernek collect old imprints of mezuzahs to uncover Jewish history
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