How my grandparents met: a Yiddish-American romance
Harry watched, captivated, as Lil spoke to the crowd at a peace demonstration
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An important Yiddish learning tool has been added to the Forward website
The goal is to help readers correctly pronounce Yiddish words that are derived from Hebrew and Aramaic
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My mother’s wig making salon in the 1920s
She would string the hair up on a long thread knotted at the top and start making a wig out of it.
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How Yiddish found a home in Sweden (online lecture in Yiddish)
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Philanthropist Elie Hirschfeld gifts domains Yiddish.com and Yiddish.org to the Forward
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