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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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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
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What my father taught me about drinking whiskey
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In his last days, my father asked for Yiddish music
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My father spoke like Tevye the Dairyman – but with a Polish-Yiddish dialect
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Former rabbinical student recalls the moment his belief in the Lubavitcher Rebbe vanished
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How the Forverts historically related to its women readers
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Paper cuttings for Shavuos — a Jewish folk tradition
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Remembering Gella Schweid-Fishman — a Yiddish teacher we teen girls could relate to
The other teachers, all male, had fled Europe, and their accents and bearing bespoke ‘old country’
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