A horror show at her grandparents’ house
A Jewish woman recalls what happened during a sleepover with older relatives during her childhood
Yiddish World
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‘A Sweet Year’ (A Rosh Hashanah story)
This appeared in a book of Yiddish holiday stories by the children's author Levin Kipnis, published in 1961
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Der Nister, the hidden shul on the 14th floor
Building a synagogue that embraces culture
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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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My great-grandfather, a strike leader, paid dearly for his activism
In 1919, the Boston Globe published his letter protesting the way the police treated striking textile workers
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Bella Bryks Klein, beloved Yiddish activist in Tel Aviv, has died
She helped run Yiddish events in Tel Aviv and distribute the Forverts to Holocaust survivors
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VIDEO: From under her grandfather’s prayer shawl on Tisha B’Av: Discovering Yiddish
Yiddish activist Gella Schweid Fishman was in the synagogue with her grandfather, when a poster on the wall caught her eye.
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VIDEO: Indian student takes his first in-person Yiddish class — and loves it
Duke University doctoral student Syed Habeeb Tehseen is now a fan of classic Yiddish literature.
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Lively course on Hasidic Yiddish at Yiddish Summer Weimar
Instructors, including performer Mendy Cahan and Yiddish experts, will teach the language and culture of Hasidic Jews today
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Yiddish Shabbos songs to sing while sipping your glass of tea
Most Jews end the Sabbath meal with Hebrew or Aramaic hymns, but there are some wonderful Yiddish ones, too
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Why are Yiddish speakers talking about JD Vance and bedbugs?
The 'vants,' once ubiquitous among poor Lower East Side residents, appears in a number of humorous Yiddish expressions
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