How Yiddish found a home in Sweden (online lecture in Yiddish)
Yiddish scholar Jan Schwarz will describe how “mame-loshn” is supported in academia, media and publishing
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Re ‘A photo of my bubbe when Jewish stores still had Yiddish signs’ by Jennifer A. Stern
Two readers add their observations of the photo, taken on the lower East Side in the early 1930s
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A photo of my bubbe when Jewish stores still had Yiddish signs
As far as I know, this photograph is my family's only physical link to our Yiddish-speaking past
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Of the six million Jews who were killed in the Holocaust, 85% were Yiddish speakers.
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Speakers at the event described in gripping detail the heroic acts by women, including young girls, in the resistance
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Philanthropist Elie Hirschfeld gifts domains Yiddish.com and Yiddish.org to the Forward
Having these domains will enable the Forward to draw more readers and viewers to its Yiddish-related content
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The Forverts is going on vacation. Here’s how to access our content while we’re away.
Check out the links to our English and Yiddish articles, easy-to-read Tidbits column, Yiddish Wordle and videos
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Will Chaim Grade’s novel ‘Sons and Daughters’ come out in Yiddish?
The new English translation is drawing praise but surprisingly, the original Yiddish version was never released in book form
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Yiddish fans in Berlin launch a Yiddish open mic series
The goal is to bring together the Yiddish language and literary culture community and the thriving local Yiddish music scene
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