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Yiddish World Training the ‘Hester Street’ actors how to pronounce their Yiddish lines
Yiddish dialogue coach Miriam Isaacs found the actors, especially the children, in the new play quick and eager learners.
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Yiddish World Why do so many Yiddish words in English have a German spelling?
The small but important differences in how we spell Yiddish words today
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Culture How a club of Irish-Jewish immigrants celebrated St. Patrick’s Day Jewish-style
Members included the married comic duo Jerry Stiller, who was Jewish, and Anne Meara, who was of Irish descent.
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Culture How Yiddish slogans captured a controversial cover story — and the precarious state of American Jews
The Atlantic's new issue features a deep dive into American antisemitism. Its cover tells a slightly different story
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Books How Isaac Bashevis Singer’s translator edits without editing
David Stromberg, the Yiddishist behind a new collection of the Nobel Prize winner's essays for the Forward, talks about the challenges of bringing his work to a modern audience
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Culture Did this pro-immigrant linguist inspire Donald Trump’s latest anti-immigrant rant?
‘Language City’ author Ross Perlin speaks about Yiddish and other endangered languages
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Culture Aaron Lansky, who rescued 1.5 million Yiddish books and founded the Yiddish Book Center, is retiring
He went looking for Yiddish books as a grad student. He ended up saving a whole world of literature, language and culture
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Looking Forward The Hebrew word we need right now doesn’t seem to exist
'Kneytsh,' the Yiddish word for 'nuance,' is the key ingredient currently missing from our conversations on the war
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