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“Vu di velt hot nor an ek” (Through an Endless Stretch of Land), by Kadya Molodowsky. Children’s poems in Yiddish and English

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“Vu di velt hot nor an ek” (Through an Endless Stretch of Land), by Kadya Molodowsky. Children’s poems in Yiddish and English. Yaira Singer has collected, translated, and illustrated her…

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Verter fun der Vokh – Art

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Artists can choose from various mediums when they set about creating a picture: watercolors, oil paints, acrylic paint, etc. Or, if not painting, then perhaps they sketch – a pen-and-ink…

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Verter fun der Vokh – War In Israel

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Fifty years after the Yom Kippur war, the State of Israel has experienced a huge surprise attack during a Jewish holiday. This time the attackers were Hamas terrorists who attacked…

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Verter fun der Vokh – Distracted Driving

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יאָ, יאָ, מי‮ר האָבן אײַך געזען. איר האָט זיך געמאַכט נישט וויסנדיק, אָבער געווען קלאָר ווי דער טאָג אַז איר טעקסטלט בשעת איר פֿירט דעם אויטאָ, קוקט זיך נישט אום…

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Knowledge Under Siege | Irena Sendler: In Hiding

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Anna Bikont, Sendlerowa. W ukryciu [Irena Sendler. In hiding] (Wołowiec: Czarne, 2017). A social worker, Irena Sendler (1910-2008) belongs to the pantheon of Poland’s national heroes as a woman who saved 2500…

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Verter fun der Vokh – Vegetarianism

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Vegetarians eat foods made of plants – beans, legumes, fruits and grains – but no animal flesh. Although it can involve more diet planning in order to ensure a sufficient…

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Verter fun der Vokh – Chocolate

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Is there anyone who doesn’t like chocolate? Whether you take a chocolate candy from an assortment, or break off a piece of chocolate bar; whether you drink up a glass…

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Registration is now open for online Yiddish Classes starting in February

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Click here to learn more and sign up Chicago YIVO Society is offering three online Yiddish classes this spring via Zoom. Please note that these are continuations of classes offered…

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Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine

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About the Event The long 1930s, Amelia M. Glaser proposes, gave rise to a genre of internationalist modernism in which tropes of national collective memory were rewritten as the shared experiences of…

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Verter fun der Vokh – The Automobile

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אַז משה האָט זיך שוין געדאַרפֿט לאָזן אין וועג אַרײַן האָט ער זיך אַרײַנגעזעצט אין אויטאָ, אַ קוק ‮געטאָן אויפֿן קאָנטראָלברעט, אַרײַנגעקוקט אין הינטערשפּיגל, אָנגעשטעלט דעם אויטאָ, אָנגעטרעטן אויפֿן גאַזפּעדאַל,…

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