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Miriam Udel is both an ordained rabbi and an acclaimed professor of Yiddish literature at Emory University
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Workers Circle hosts wide array of Zoom spring courses for Yiddish speakers
Courses include advanced grammar with linguist Yitskhok Niborski and works of humor and satire with Michael Wex.
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New film about postwar shtetls in the former USSR is now streaming
The film "Shtetlers" reveals the Jewish culture that Jews and non-Jews shared in these towns.
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My mother and grandmother never made challah. Here’s why I do, and why I love it.
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Three books on Yiddish-related themes win National Jewish Book Awards
Among the winners: Kenneth Moss’ retelling of Polish Jewish history, focusing on the painful trade-offs Jews were forced to make.
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Why the poet Anna Margolin wrote a 1915 column about actress Sarah Bernhardt’s leg
Margolin hoped it would help women think more about female courage, self-fulfillment and even self-sacrifice for a higher cause.
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Rekindling our Jewish friendships
The wonderful thing about old friends is that they knew our parents as young adults and they even remember our childhood rooms.
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Call for papers for Polish conference honoring Yiddish writer Chava Rosenfarb
The City Council of Lodz has unanimously voted to make 2023, Rosenfarb’s centenary, to be The Year of Chava Rosenfarb.
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Online Yiddish theater workshop and Yiddish courses at a low price
In the theater workshop, students will act out the Yiddish translation of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman.”
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Yiddish film offers authentic recreation of shtetl life before it was destroyed
The title leaves the ‘e’ out of ‘shtetl’ as a symbol of what was lost.
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Play the new horror-themed Yiddish Wordle!
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