How the Yiddish project took root in the U.S. after the Holocaust
Kalman Weiser’s book describes how the YIVO Institute in New York transformed Yiddish into a spiritual, intellectual bridge between generations
Yiddish World
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An unvarnished look at Polish Hasidic life before the Holocaust
‘Hasidic Warsaw,’ a collection of stories about an eccentric pious Jew called Reb Zalmen, is now available in English
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In the Southwest, public libraries are becoming Yiddish hubs
Libraries in Texas and New Mexico are establishing reading groups focused on English translations of Yiddish literature
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The Forverts is on vacation. Here’s how to access our content while we’re away.
Check out the links to our English and Yiddish articles, Yiddish Wordle, Yiddish lessons and cooking shows
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‘The first time my band ever encountered such hostility’
A concert by the klezmer band Dobranotch in Spain was cut short after hecklers began throwing stones at the musicians
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‘The Yiddish Teacher’ (Poem)
Miriam Hoffman welcomed me into her home so that I could record how she and her beloved Yiddish both survived the Holocaust
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Lively Yiddish Forward columnist Miriam Hoffman has died
During the 1960s, she figured out how to circumvent the sexism she encountered within the Yiddish cultural organizations
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Art Yiddish culture is exploding with life. I drew what it’s like to be surrounded by it.
A graphic journal of Yidstock, the annual summer music festival, documents the beating heart of a revival and some of its iconic leaders
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How Yiddish compresses whole stories into one word
When speaking to my children, I pepper my English with my grandparents’ Yiddish to seed some of their courage into their souls
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What sort of Yiddish do Yiddishists speak today?
Linguist Emma Breslow interviewed 30 Yiddish speakers — mostly from New York, Boston, and Montreal — to study their language use
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Looking for the right Yiddish word? This 1950 reference book finds it for you
Nahum Stutchkoff’s ‘Treasure of the Yiddish Language’ was created as a Yiddish version of Roget’s Thesaurus
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