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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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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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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Yiddish postcards from the war in Ukraine
A Ukrainian woman is producing postcards with slogans in Yiddish to raise money for first-aid kits.
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My rebbe, David Weiss-Halivni: a scholar and a mensch
He often invited me on his walks on Riverside Drive and this became a cherished moment for me to be with my revered teacher.
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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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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.
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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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