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A Yiddish word I never expected to see on a license plate
For secular Jewish socialists in prewar Poland, 'doikayt' wasn't just a word, but a bold political statement
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Video: For Yom Hashoah, watch this inspiring program honoring the Warsaw Ghetto fighters
The event featured a talk by Julia Mintz, whose directing has focused on narratives of resistance against unimaginable odds
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How Jewish refugees managed, against all odds, to make a Seder in 1941 in Kobe, Japan
In her diary, the actress Shoshana Kahan described how difficult it was to find eggs to make the matzah balls
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Preeminent Yiddish literature prize is open for submissions
Recent winners include Michoel Felsenbaum and Boris Sandler
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An Ashkenazi delicacy made of fish sperm
It was popular not just with Jews, but with Poles who ate it for the meatless Christmas Eve meal
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VIDEO: Violinist Itzhak Perlman tells us his favorite Passover recipes. Then see us make them.
The virtuoso took some time out of his busy teaching schedule to share childhood memories of his mother's cooking
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Asian descendants of hidden Jews maintain their languages
The work of Kristang language activists has something in common with that of the Yiddishists
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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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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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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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