Classic Yiddish holiday tales can provide hope in these dark times
Secular Yiddish children’s literature relayed the political aspirations, values and anxieties of Ashkenazi Jewry during the 20th century
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‘A Sweet Year’ (A Rosh Hashanah story)
This appeared in a book of Yiddish holiday stories by the children's author Levin Kipnis, published in 1961
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My great-grandfather, a strike leader, paid dearly for his activism
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Bella Bryks Klein, beloved Yiddish activist in Tel Aviv, has died
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Lively course on Hasidic Yiddish at Yiddish Summer Weimar
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