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Fast Forward How the NY Public Library acquired a ‘treasure trove’ of Jewish and Yiddish music
Manuscripts and arrangements of music performed on Yiddish radio station WEVD sat in a basement for 40 years
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Theater Ex-hasidic, trans and brutally honest, Lili Rosen invites you to her ‘Second Circumcision’
The one-woman show is a funny, poignant account of the performer’s transition
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Letters Do anti-Zionist Yiddishists see the Hamas massacre of Jews as ‘resistance’?
As a second-generation Bundist, I find the theater collective GLYK’s pro-Palestinian alignment misguided
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Oct. 7: One Year Later A painful split in the Yiddishist community since Oct. 7
The opposing perspectives of pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian Yiddish fans has triggered anxiety and vehement arguments
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Culture Why ‘schlub’ seems to be the word of the year
In an election year, a Yiddish word teaches us how to separate the competent from the incompetent
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Yiddish World A horror show at her grandparents’ house
A Jewish woman recalls what happened during a sleepover with older relatives during her childhood
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Fast Forward Chuck Schumer’s enemies can’t resist cursing him out in Yiddish
He was elected after being called a ‘putzhead.’ Now the head of the Jewish GOP is calling him a schmuck
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Yiddish World What kids wrote in the Yiddish press about their summer vacations
3 city children reveal what they discovered in the countryside and how they felt about being there
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