Jennifer A. Stern
By Jennifer A. Stern
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Yiddish World The time a Christian woman turned to the Bintel Brief for advice
Her question and the editor's response reveal much about the emotional and sexual lives of women in the 1940s.
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Yiddish World Paintings of Torah study that are true works of art
In all the author’s art history graduate courses, the word ‘Jewish’ was never mentioned
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Yiddish World The dresses my aunt sewed for us, following in Bubbe’s footsteps
Two women in Jennifer Stern's family were garment workers, like many Jewish immigrants and immigrants’ children at that time.
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Yiddish World Issachar Ber Ryback’s art is a revelation!
On March 6, when the horror and shock of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine were still intensely fresh, the Forverts ran an article about Kropyvnytskyi-born Jewish artist Issachar Ber Ryback. I was instantly hooked by the accompanying image: an Old World Jewish craftsman, laboring in a candle-lit workshop. When I began to read through the Yiddish…
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Yiddish World Favorite Heirlooms: Photo of my great-grandmother
According to family lore, Sophie’s mother was a first cousin of Marc Chagall’s mother, Feige-Ita.
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