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Yiddish World How this Jewish day school teaches students about the Holocaust
Students at the Ramaz Middle School view a map in English and Yiddish, as well as artifacts contributed by community members
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Yiddish World The remarkable story of the Lost Shtetl Museum
Worried that the Jewish cemetery in the former shtetl Šeduva would be neglected, Sergey Kanovich found a solution
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Yiddish World What pre-pesach cleaning was like in the shtetl
The late Mayer Kirshenblatt, from Opatow (Apt), recalls his parents replacing the straw in their mattresses.
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Yiddish World A short Yiddish horror film set at the start of the Hasidic movement
Informed by Jewish folklore and the writings of Isaac Bashevis Singer, the film carries a mythic poetic quality
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Yiddish World Conference to promote the study of Eastern European Jewry in Ukraine
Papers are being sought on aspects of shtetl life, religious and intellectual thought and Yiddish language and culture
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Yiddish World ‘The rabbi who was late to Kol Nidre’ (folktale)
The Yom Kippur prayer service is about to begin and all the townspeople are there. But who’s watching the babies?
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Yiddish World Video: A Purim tale, ‘Drunk all year, but sober on Purim,’ in Yiddish with English subtitles
Master storyteller Shane Baker recites the classic writer I. L. Peretz's story of a would-be saintly man diverted by a turkey
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