Jewish Comfort Food: Farfel and Lima Beans
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Fay Bialowas explains how the farfel was once made from scratch, and then we show you how to prepare it with onions and lima beans.
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Yiddish Cultural Seders Provide Alternative Way to Celebrate Exodus From Egypt
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. In addition to the traditional Seders that take place on the first two nights of Passover, Yiddish-speaking New Yorkers have celebrated alternative Yiddish cultural Seders for decades. The most well-known of them, the “Driter Seder” (Third Seder), which takes place during the intermediate days of Passover, was…
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Want To Know Where Yiddish Is Going? Ask Directions In Israel
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. During a recent trip to Israel, my 31-year old son, Naftali, spent an afternoon taking in the sights of Tel Aviv. Although he’s a fluent Hebrew speaker, he was curious whether any of the merchants or passers-by knew Yiddish, too, and decided to check it out. Entering…
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India, A Little-Known Wartime Refuge for German-Speaking Jews
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. New Delhi, India. – Most people know the compelling history of the Jews who escaped Hitler’s henchmen by going to Shanghai, but few know that India, too, provided refuge for a large number of Jews during World War II. As Dr. Margit Franz, a historian at the…
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EXCLUSIVE: Did Writer Sholem Asch Reject His Orphaned Nephews?
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. The classic Yiddish writer, Sholem Asch, whose serialized stories once graced the pages of the Forverts, has become a familiar name as of late, thanks to the new theatrical production of his novel about a Jewish brothel owner, “God of Vengeance” and Paula Vogel‘s acclaimed drama about…
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Celebrating 120 Years of the Forverts: Jewish Housewives Urged To Buy Long Island Ducks
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Few people know that Long Island was once a national center of duck farming with hundreds of active poultry farms. Digging through Purim issues of yesteryear our archivist Chana Pollack recently came upon this amusing ad that ran in The Forward on March 5th, 1925, telling Jewish…
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Learn To Be A Yiddish ‘Jester,’ In Germany
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Badkhonem, traditional Eastern-European Jewish wedding entertainers who are part clown, part master of ceremonies and part musical entertainment, are a rare sight these days outside of the Hasidic world. So where should you study if you’d like to learn to be a Badkhn today? Apparently Germany. The…
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Treasures From the Forverts’ Archive – Chapter #2. The Forward Building
How was the historic Forward Building built?
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Why We Celebrate English-Speaking Day
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. When I got married, I decided to speak Yiddish to my children, and not just any Yiddish, but my husband’s “haimish Yiddish”; in other words – Hasidic Yiddish. I was able to carry out my plan quickly since I was marrying a divorced father of three, so…
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The ‘Turncoats’ Of Wojslawice — And What They Say About Us
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. The Jews of Uchanie, my father’s shtetl in Lublin province, used to say about the Jews of Wojslawice just down the road, that they were meshumodim. Turncoats. What worse epithet could you hurl at a fellow Jew? Slawek Nowodworski, the translator/genealogist my son and I hired in…
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VIDEO: Watch us make the other tasty Purim pastry — fluden
Be sure to take a piece before it cools: fluden is even tastier when still warm from the oven.
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