An Entire Year With Reb Lipa
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. See the funniest and most touching moments in the video series, as Lipa reacts spontaneously to people and situations as only Lipa can.
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120 Years of the Forverts: Pogrom Refugees Desperately Seeking Relatives in America
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Although the sheer brutality of the pogroms has been largely overshadowed by the Holocaust, the massacres of Jews in the Russian Empire before WWI and especially in the postwar chaos surrounding its dissolution (1917-1922) were so well-orchestrated that some modern scholars consider them to have constituted a…
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When Polish Intellectuals Thrived in Pre-State Israel
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. A new book describes a surprising phenomenon in Palestine right before the founding of the State of Israel: a burst of literary creativity by respected non-Jewish Polish writers who were stationed in Palestine during World War II. In 1941, soon after Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union,…
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WATCH: Matzo brei like Bubbe (or Zayde) used to make
Some have it sweet but this one is savory!
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Why I Decided To Shave My Head — For Better Or Worse
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. There’s a joke among Hasidim that a boy receives a prayer book in honor of his upsherin (at age three), and a girl receives one for her upsherin as well – when her hair is shaved after marriage. One of the first questions that I asked a…
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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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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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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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