Exhibit highlights the powerful impact of ‘The Dybbuk’ for the past 100 years
The play about love and supernatural possession symbolizes both the destruction of European Jewry and Jewish resilience
Yiddish World
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Book party for Yiddish translation of ‘Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets’
A Yiddish review of the book praised its use of highly Germanized Yiddish for the pompous character Gilderoy Lockhart
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A Yiddish parody of the Hebrew prayer for rain
The folk song is performed here by the late cantor Mordechai Hershman
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One thing the pirates couldn’t steal (a Simchat Torah parable)
Originally a Hebrew rabbinic tale, its Yiddish translation appeared in various textbooks of the Yiddish afternoon schools
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A story about a Sukkah on the Argentine grasslands
A farmer describes what Sukkos was like for his family when they immigrated from Russia and didn’t even have a house yet.
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Online conference to focus on Jewish life in prewar Lithuania
Among the topics discussed: How did Lithuanian Yiddish writers living abroad help spread their own dialect?
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Workers Circle now offers Yiddish courses that meet twice a week
The program includes intensive courses that require learning the Yiddish alphabet, and conversational classes that don't
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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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‘The rabbi who was late to Kol Nidre’ (folktale)
The Yom Kippur prayer service is about to begin and all the townspeople are there. But who’s watching the babies?
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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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Classic Yiddish holiday tales can provide hope in these dark times
Secular Yiddish children’s literature relayed the political aspirations, values and anxieties of Ashkenazi Jewry during the 20th century
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