How Tu B’Av, the ancient Jewish holiday of love, was revived
In 1932, a group of Orthodox girls celebrated the holiday by taking a nighttime hike into the woods.
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Groundbreaking album breathes new life into nearly abandoned Jewish musical art
Jeremiah Lockwood sought to revive the early 20th century style of cantorial music; he found unexpected partners in the Brooklyn Hasidic community.
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Paintings of Torah study that are true works of art
In all the author’s art history graduate courses, the word ‘Jewish’ was never mentioned
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Suddenly looking like our aging parents did
"Often I see someone after a hiatus and my breath catches in my throat, because suddenly they look just like their parents," Sokolsky writes.
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What sort of Yiddish did Jews in Hungary speak?
Hungarian Yiddish may be today's most common Yiddish dialect but many Hungarian Jews in the old country didn’t even speak Yiddish.
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Linguist Isaac Bleaman receives National Science Foundation award to study language of Holocaust survivors
The $470,000 grant will support research based on Yiddish-language testimonies from the USC Shoah Foundation.
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Giving my son a bris, even though my father wouldn’t have approved
Knowing how religion could separate people made my father find all faiths ridiculous at best, evil at worst.
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The dresses my aunt sewed for us, following in Bubbe’s footsteps
Two women in Jennifer Stern's family were garment workers, like many Jewish immigrants and immigrants’ children at that time.
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The spa resort where European rebbes spent their summer vacations
Before World War I, the Marienbad resort had hotels for the rebbes, replete with glatt kosher restaurants and ritual baths
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Tea, cake and passionate political discussions
For years, the author's parents hosted lively gatherings of Holocaust survivors in their home in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.
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VIDEO: Preparing Indian lemon rice in Yiddish (with English subtitles)
Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath doesn't just edit Yiddish dictionaries. She's a maven in Indian cooking, too.
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