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‘Faust’ author Goethe’s fascination with Yiddish
As a young man, Goethe visited Jewish schools in Frankfurt, and even attended a circumcision and a Jewish wedding ...
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100 years after its founding, can a Yiddish institute serve a people who don’t speak the language?
Sign up for Forwarding the News, the Forward’s morning newsletter with all the news and analysis that matters to American Jews each day. The YIVO institute, an ...
Yiddish, the historic language of Jews in Europe and Russia, was once nearly extinguished. But now Jews drawn to the language for different reasons are keeping Yiddish alive. Before World War II, some ...
Richmond Yiddish Week runs Saturday, Jan. 10, through Friday, Jan. 16, with one event each day highlighting the historic ...
BERKELEY, Calif. — Three years ago, when Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell took the stage at a Jewish vaudeville celebration and said he was going to sing in Yiddish, people laughed. As a 6-foot-plus ...
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How the Yiddish ‘poet of the people’ wrote more than 500 songs yet struggled to be heard
Separate the signal from the noise about antisemitism and understand current debates over Jewish safety. Sign up for the Antisemitism Decoded newsletter today. One of the first 1900s Yiddish recording ...
At a Berlin bar on a recent Wednesday evening, several patrons kept glancing curiously at the group of eight people around a neighboring table. The members of the group were chatting in a language ...
The Greenbergs arrived in Hazleton in October and are setting up a center on 22nd Street in Hazle Twp. that will be open for ...
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