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Yiddish World Yiddish Wordle designers create a version for the Forverts
To play Vertl, click here. On February 10, Vertl – the Yiddish version of the hugely popular game, Wordle – came under the auspices of the Forverts, enabling the game to reach many more players. Initially, there were two Yiddish forms of Wordle, both launched in mid-January: one created by Masha Leyfer and Gabrielle Taylor,…
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Fast Forward A millennial Yiddish music maven launches a record label
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) – Steadfast listeners of “Borscht Beat” — a weekly FM radio show featuring Jewish music, old and new — will be thrilled to hear of host Aaron Bendich’s latest project: a new Jewish record label of the same name. On his hour-long radio program, the 27-year-old plays…
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Yiddish World Favorite Heirlooms: Hats from the black market in Uzbekistan
These are the hats that my mother and uncles bought when bartering to survive in Uzbekistan during the Holocaust years. My mother was only twelve years old and her brothers – 14 and 9 years of age – when she and her family left Horodenka, Ukraine in 1941 and took the long treacherous journey to…
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Yiddish World How I, a Chabadnik, discovered Chaim Grade’s novels
In the Chabad yeshiva in Crown Heights, where I was a student in the early 1980s, Yiddish literature was non-existent. Sure, we spoke Yiddish in school and we read the text of the Rebbe’s Yiddish sermons, but Yiddish literature was never mentioned. Then again, we didn’t read English literature either. We studied the Torah, Talmud,…
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Yiddish World An Echo of Jewish Lublin through Yiddish Fonts
“Normally, a poster would not include so much empty space. But any poster about Lublin must contain empty space,” Robert told me. I was standing in the print shop of Dom Słów or The House of Words in Lublin, Poland, next to visionary printer Robert Sawa in his signature ink-stained apron, his long graying hair…
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Yiddish World Jewish couples in love even after decades together
As the Yiddish proverb goes: “Hob mikh veyniker lib, nor hob mikh lang lib – love me less, but love me long.” I don’t see this as a popular saying among millennials, just as it wasn’t for us yidn in di yorn (Jews getting on in years) when we were young ourselves. Being swept up…
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Yiddish World The Night Golda Meir Slept In My Bed
Norma Salz shares the story behind her favorite heirloom: a handwritten letter in Yiddish from Golda Meir in 1931.
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Yiddish World VIDEO: Bubbe’s noodle kugel – savory and fried
In this clip of the Forverts cooking show, “Est Gezunterheyt,” watch Rukhl Schaechter and Eve Jochnowitz prepare a traditional dairy noodle kugel that’s savory rather than loaded with sugar – and fried rather than baked. Eve says it’s the only noodle kugel her mother and grandmother ever made. And check out the video’s new look!
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