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David Stromberg, the Yiddishist behind a new collection of the Nobel Prize winner's essays for the Forward, talks about the challenges of bringing his work to a modern audience
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Culture How one newspaper column saved lives, reunited families and changed the course of Jewish history
During the Holocaust and its aftermath, the Forward's Seeking Relatives helped thousands when no one else could
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Fast Forward David Duchovny takes a deep dive into his Jewish heritage on ‘Finding Your Roots’
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Yiddish World The ideological journey of the Forverts in the first half of the 20th century
Read this article in Yiddish. Transatlantic Russian Jewishness: Ideological Voyages of the Yiddish Daily Forverts in the First Half of the Twentieth Century Gennady Estraikh Academic Studies Press, $119, 354 pp In the history of American journalism, the Forverts is a genuine outlier. Over the course of the first half of the last century, the…
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Opinion What the new Pew study missed by not asking about Yiddish
Read this article in Yiddish. When I heard that the Pew Research Center was releasing its new report on American Jewish identity, and that it had added more measures of expressing Jewishness than it did in its landmark 2013 study, I was sure that “learning Yiddish” or “engaging in Yiddish culture” would be included. After…
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Culture ‘If not for the Forward, I’d never have been born.’
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