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Yiddish World A Yiddish word I never expected to see on a license plate
For secular Jewish socialists in prewar Poland, 'doikayt' wasn't just a word, but a bold political statement
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Fast Forward Pro-Palestinian demonstrator is removed from Warsaw Ghetto Uprising commemoration in Poland
The protester, who unfurled a Palestinian flag, stood silently during the ceremony to mark the anniversary of the uprising against the Nazis
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Culture Bringing Passover back to the town where the Nazis killed our relatives
My friend Sharon and I collaborated with community leaders to restore the memory of Jewish life in Radom, Poland
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Books How Isaac Bashevis Singer’s translator edits without editing
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
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Books The Lublin Yeshiva Library was thought to be destroyed by the Nazis. Then its books started turning up.
A dogged researcher has so far identified 800 surviving books from a library thought burned during the Holocaust
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Culture They survived harrowing Holocaust ordeals — and found extraordinary new lives in the U.S.
Six stories highlight the lasting trauma of the Shoah — and the ways survivors came to thrive, afterward
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Film & TV In ‘Delegation,’ Auschwitz and Majdanek provide the the backdrop for a mumblecore teen heritage tour
Asaf Saban’s film is an uneven look at Israeli high schoolers and the Holocaust
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Yiddish World The filmmaker who challenged his Haredi community’s prejudices
Menachem Daum believed that reaching out to Poles and other non-Jews was part of his holy work in creating a better world
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Fast Forward Cory Booker has long embraced Jewish tradition. Now he has married a Jewish woman.
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