Thousands of Yiddish pulp fiction stories finally seeing the light of day
The ‘Shund’ database’s beta version catalogs almost 40 years of Forverts pulp fiction
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Plus doppelgänger stories, new Jewish romance and a reboot of a Yiddish classic in this month's books newsletter
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Theater A classic story of immigrant Jews returns to New York — this time as a musical
In ‘The Imported Bridegroom,’ a century-old story still feels relevant
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Forverts in English What popular children’s poet Kadya Molodowsky wrote about her mother
A recurrent theme in her work include the lives of Jewish women and girls and Jewish tradition in the face of modernity.
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Forverts in English Yiddish literature scholar David Roskies’ extraordinary archive now accessible online
The collection includes studies on classic writers of Yiddish literature, teaching notes and irreplaceable memoirs
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Forverts in English VIDEO: In historic first, a female Orthodox rabbi opens prayer at a state legislature
Miriam Udel is both an ordained rabbi and an acclaimed professor of Yiddish literature at Emory University
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Forverts in English Why you never heard of the avant-garde Jewish artist Sarah Shor
She survived pogroms, Stalin and more — by safely avoiding the spotlight
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Forverts in English My obsession with my Hasidic father’s handwritten letters
His letters were remarkably similar to those I wrote as a teen: petty gossip among friends, misunderstandings, pranks, but also deep friendship.
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