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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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Yiddish World Speaking Yiddish to chickens: Holocaust survivors on South Jersey chicken farms
These new farmers, adapting to an isolating rural way of life, found comfort in Yiddish culture, a link to lost families and hometowns
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Yiddish World The Forward launches the Yiddish Community Calendar
We want to be your go-to source for Yiddish-themed events, whether online or in-person, in English or in Yiddish
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Film & TV There’s now a queer, sexy contender in the Jewish horror movie boom
‘Attachment’ is a funny and fresh take on an already tired formula
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