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Yiddish World What popular children’s poet Kadya Molodowsky wrote about her mother
A recurrent theme in her work include the lives of Jewish women and girls and Jewish tradition in the face of modernity.
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Yiddish World Yiddish literature scholar David Roskies’ extraordinary archive now accessible online
The collection includes studies on classic writers of Yiddish literature, teaching notes and irreplaceable memoirs
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Yiddish World VIDEO: In historic first, a female Orthodox rabbi opens prayer at a state legislature
Miriam Udel is both an ordained rabbi and an acclaimed professor of Yiddish literature at Emory University
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Yiddish World Why you never heard of the avant-garde Jewish artist Sarah Shor
She survived pogroms, Stalin and more — by safely avoiding the spotlight
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Yiddish World My obsession with my Hasidic father’s handwritten letters
His letters were remarkably similar to those I wrote as a teen: petty gossip among friends, misunderstandings, pranks, but also deep friendship.
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Yiddish World When the enemy is your brother
The war in Ukraine recalls Avrom Reyzen’s story about a Jew who’s worried that ammunition he's helping create might kill his own brother.
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Books Hear classic Yiddish writers read their works, accompanied by translations
An audio recording of 12 Yiddish writers reading their works, accompanied by English translations, is now available. The recording can be ordered either as a digital download or as two CDs (or both), and comes with a book that includes the readings in Yiddish and in English, as well as a biography of each writer…
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