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Yiddish World Choral piece inspired by Yiddish lullabies premiering across four continents
Swedish Jewish composer Jacob Mühlrad is a rising star in the international classical music community.
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Yiddish World VIDEO: Rabbi Yosef Ber Soloveitchik speaks about Passover
Soloveitchik, called The Rav by his students, is considered one of the most influential leaders of Modern Orthodoxy in 20th century America.
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Yiddish World I grew up Jewish on a chicken farm. This book gets it right.
The surprising story of Holocaust survivors in rural New Jersey
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Culture He was one of our greatest writers — so, why don’t people talk about him anymore?
A new book tries to reclaim the legacy of I.L. Peretz
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Yiddish World The history of Orthodox Jewry needs to be told. Here’s what two scholars are doing about it.
The Birnbaum collection has thousands of letters from Albert Einstein, Theodore Herzl and other dignitaries, jammed into manila envelopes.
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Yiddish World Dungeons & Dragons in Yiddish
The legendary tabletop game is now modified for play in Yiddish.
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Yiddish World This artist paints portraits of today’s Yiddishists
Three works by Los Angeles-based artist Silvia Wagensberg are on display at UCLA Hillel.
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Fast Forward David Duchovny takes a deep dive into his Jewish heritage on ‘Finding Your Roots’
The episode saw the acclaimed actor tearing up as he learned about his Yiddish-language journalist grandfather
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