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Premiering this week, 'The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language' tells the true story of Holocaust survivors and émigré scholars in NYC racing to salvage a civilization ...
(JTA) — When Meena Viswanath signed on more than two years ago to help Duolingo, the world’s largest language learning app, create its first Yiddish course, she knew it wouldn’t be easy. But Viswanath ...
Yiddish — the language and culture — is part of the modern Jewish story, says chief curator David Mazower. And without it, ‘you don’t have the full story.’ What do a leather medicine ball, a steamer ...
Linda Wertz says she had a typical Jewish family upbringing as a child in New York City. “My parents only spoke Yiddish when they didn’t want us kids to know what they were talking about,” she said ...
The Amherst institution’s ‘Yiddish: A Global Culture’ will tell stories of migration, personal transformation, creativity, and ethnic solidarity through 350 objects Is there such a thing as modern ...
In the hallways of New York’s YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the story was told as a punchline: the great Yiddish dictionary project that took 25 years and never got beyond the first letter of ...
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