VIDEO: How to make ‘poor man’s caviar’ for National Caviar Day
This tasty dish is an eggplant spread that Jews used to spread on challah and other breads
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Blending Yiddish calligraphy with watercolor, drawing and collage
Czech-born Karolina Kašeová's art includes original portraits of renowned authors created out of their own words.
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I was sure the sun revolved around the Earth. That’s what they taught us in yeshiva.
To get a secular education, my grandmother had to tutor me in basic English and math
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Zoom lecture (in Yiddish): Popular culture and language use among American Hasidim
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Communications Forward essay on growing up with a biracial Yiddish identity wins 1st place Rockower Award
In her essay, Kyla Kupferstein Torres describes the warm relationship she had with her Holocaust survivor grandparents
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Star-studded cast presents show about birth of Yiddish theater, July 11 in NYC
The one-night performance includes songs, theatrical scenes and stories in English and Yiddish with supertitles
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Listen to a passionate performance of Yiddish art song
David Childs learned the music of composer Lazar Weiner from his son Yehudi
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Jews have their own creole language — in the middle of the Caribbean
Judaeo-Papiamento is spoken by the Sephardic Jewish community of Curaçao
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Smithsonian festival to include Yiddish concert, blintzes and pickling workshops
The annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival celebrates contemporary cultural traditions from around the world.
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My embarrassing moment in a Yiddish-speaking men’s clothing store
In the 1950’s, this neighborhood had so many Holocaust survivors, even Italian shopkeepers understood Yiddish
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Yiddish radio interview with literature scholar Avraham Novershtern
The professor emeritus from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem now serves as director of Beit Sholem Aleichem in Tel Aviv
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