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The Schmooze Yiddish Actress Chayale Ash-Fuhrman Dies at 90
In Yiddish there are some professions or positions that use the diminutive form of a name as a sign of popular endearment. These include Hasidic rebbes, cantors, thieves and actors. This was true of the beloved Yiddish actress Chayele Ash-Furman, who died on March 8 in Northern California at the age of 90. According to…
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Culture Looking Back: March 23, 2012
100 Years Ago in the Forward With dozens of detectives on the case, the police currently have no suspects and no clues about who threw a bomb into the home of Judge Otto Rosalsky. The judge doesn’t believe any of the theories the police have put forward. The police presented, without evidence, the theory that…
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Culture Fighting Fiercely Over Jewish Recipes
American Jews are no strangers to competition. One might even say it’s the coin of the realm, especially when it comes to academics, the law, sports and synagogue politics. All the same, it might very well surprise you, as it did me, to learn that competition also encompasses the realm of food. No, I don’t…
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Culture Geleh: A Love Story
Translated by Miriam Hoffman and Beverly Koenigsberg This story originally appeared in the Forverts of July 30, 1993. My father was at one time a handsome and elegant young man — tall, with broad shoulders and a forelock of curly red hair. He loved flirting with the girls. He told me that many young women…
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Culture Looking Back: March 16, 2012
100 Years Ago in the Forward The horse-poisoning trial of cloak maker Jacob Cohen began before Judge Otto Rosalsky. The trial opened with the first witness, a Pinkerton Detective, claiming to have caught Cohen in the act. The detective testified that he was on a stakeout on Market Street in front of Rubin’s Grocery Store…
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Culture An Immigrant’s Life, Told Graphically
In 1906, Nasye Frug wrote to the Forverts about her life as a new wife and recent immigrant. Even before receiving unhelpful wedding gifts, she had realized that the Goldene Medina of the New World was not turning out to be quite the life she had imagined. Writing about her childhood in the Old Country…
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Culture Nudge, Nudge. Wink, Wink.
Charles Krauthamer of Teaneck, N.J. (not to be confused with the Washington columnist of the same name), writes to ask: “A word used in Israel to mean ‘to pester’ is l’najez. I always assumed that it came from the Yiddish word ‘nudge’ until I was told that it came from Arabic. Can you help?” The…
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Culture Looking Back: March 9, 2012
100 Years Ago in the Forward When Celia Kuperstein saw smoke and flames pouring out of the windows of her Brooklyn apartment, she dashed inside to rescue her three children. Sadly, she never made it out. Her charred corpse was eventually found by firefighters. In a twist of fate, a neighbor who saw the fire…
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