Why do so many Yiddish words in English have a German spelling?
The small but important differences in how we spell Yiddish words today
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Training the ‘Hester Street’ actors how to pronounce their Yiddish lines
Yiddish dialogue coach Miriam Isaacs found the actors, especially the children, in the new play quick and eager learners.
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Video: A Purim tale, ‘Drunk all year, but sober on Purim,’ in Yiddish with English subtitles
Master storyteller Shane Baker recites the classic writer I. L. Peretz's story of a would-be saintly man diverted by a turkey
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Prolific Yiddish conference organizer Philip ‘Fishl’ Kutner has died at 97
The retired science teacher launched Der Bay, a newsletter promoting Yiddish events and groups
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The Holocaust survivor in the typewriter repair shop
It wasn’t the sad smile or the stained apron that made me remember him so well. It was the tattoo on his forearm.
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VIDEO: Now you can make delicious gluten-free matzo balls for your chicken soup!
Our authentic Jewish chicken soup is so rich in flavor, you hardly need to salt it
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You can now hear people speaking Yiddish in bars all over Berlin
A Yiddish conversation group meets biweekly at locations around the city. Other people think they’re speaking Swiss German.
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How my family built a bank for the Lower East Side — and then destroyed it
Growing up, I had no clue about my family's role in the 1917 collapse of the Jarmulowsky Bank
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Restored 1939 Yiddish melodrama ‘Mothers of Today’ is silly, but fun
A mother drinks, smokes, gambles, and mocks the old-fashioned mother next door
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