You don’t need to be religious to enjoy the weekly Torah portion
Even atheists can enjoy these Yiddish poems and their translations, related to the Torah reading
Sheva Zucker
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The Schmooze Where To Read New Yiddish Literature
The news about Yiddish literature these days is mostly about translation — whether from Yiddish (as with Moyshe Kulbak’s “Zelmenyaner,” which I recently reviewed), or, as seems to be increasingly the case, into Yiddish. But there are plenty of writers out there producing work in Yiddish, plain and simple. A representative sample can be found…
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The Schmooze Yiddish Poems From Daughter to Mother
Sheva Zucker’s late mother Miriam was still attending a women’s Yiddish reading group in Winnipeg until just a few months before she died last January at age 97. So, even before her mother passed away, Zucker knew what the best way would be to memorialize her. “My mother was never a shul-goer, and davening is…
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