Editors waited decades for the final manuscript of Chaim Grade’s “Sons and Daughters.” Its appearance shook the Yiddish literary world.
After taking the internet by storm with their harmonic and jazz-infused takes on traditional Yiddish melodies, The Shvesters ...
When millions of Yiddish-speaking Eastern European Jews perished in the Holocaust, their stories, culture and way of life ...
Whenever my late uncle, Abraham Marks, was asked how business was, he invariably replied, “I make a living.” In fact, as a ...
New podcast Cockney Yiddish explores this rich history with a winning mix of exuberance and scholarship. One minute, we're ...
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Let me begin by saying I don’t speak Yiddish or understand more than a few words. My parents did their best to prevent me from learning it – they wanted me to be 100% American. But they spoke it when ...
In the small world of Yiddish literature, the discovery of the pages had the startling impact of a lost Hemingway manuscript ...
Henry Ruschmann, a New Jersey rancher and dabbling machinist, is credited with accidentally inventing modern glitter in 1934 ...
This article previously appeared in Yiddish. I recently learned that between 1928 and 1938, a Soviet-Jewish musicologist, ...
26 at the Workers Circle. It will be taught by the Yiddish activist Eli Benedict, who hails from a Hasidic family in B’nai B’rak, Israel and calls himself “a secular Hasid.” The 10-week ...
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