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 ...
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Yiddish offers a moral vocabulary for our times
(RNS) — Forget about shpilkes and shlepping. Yiddish contains moral weight. (RNS) — A few days ago, I found myself watching ...
Alex Weiser and Ben Kaplan's "The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language" tells the story of a battle to preserve a lost ...
The Jewish tradition of debate is at the center of a new chamber opera about two scholars clashing over a Yiddish dictionary ...
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