Don’t just say you’re a secular Jew. To honor our heritage, study it.
Meet four secular Jews who are uniquely knowledgeable in the rich Yiddish cultural legacy, which includes literature, history and yes, religion.
Yiddish World
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From our archives: A Jewish teen from Bialystok lands in a Chinese prison
Harry and his two friends were fed foul rice and could hear the Chinese prisoners who shared their cell being beaten with a rope.
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How the Soviet Jew was made
In his novel, "Judgment," Dovid Bergelson describes how the pogroms convinced Jews to support the Soviet authorities.
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From our archives: Two Jewish teens escaping Bialystok arrive in Harbin, China
Despite Czarist Russia’s attempt to spread antisemitism to Harbin, China prohibited anti-Jewish persecutions in the areas it controlled.
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VIDEO: Yiddish songs for the 4th of July
Like most immigrant groups, Jews who settled in the U.S. were eager to assimilate, while still holding on to their cultural roots.
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From Bialystok to Brooklyn: A Jewish immigrant’s trek across three continents
This story is based on an article by the immigrant himself, Choni (Harry) Oshinsky, that appeared in the Forverts in the 1970s.
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The brave Yiddish startup
I wanted to know what motivated people to dedicate their lives to spreading Yiddish, and to share their stories.
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Jewish Dishes We Miss
This rundown of 10 popular Jewish delicacies from Eastern Europe includes recipes to enable you to try making them yourself.
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More than shtetl and pogrom: Inside the movement to translate Yiddish
A group of Yiddish translators wants the world to know how modern, feminist and relatable Yiddish literature actually is.
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What this convert to Christianity wrote about the Jews
Haym Isaac's 1836 book on the folklore of the Polish and German Jews was so popular, there were three editions of it.
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What my father taught me about drinking whiskey
Part of a Forverts series devoted to Father’s Day
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