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Verter fun der Vokh: דער מוטערסטאָג – Mother’s Day

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By: League for Yiddish

May 9, 2022

Give your mom a big kiss and a hug! !גיב דער מאַמען אַ גרויסן קוש און נעם זי אַרום She loves serving her mother breakfast in bed. זי האָט שטאַרק…

Uncovering the Yiddish-language tales about Knights of the Round Table that Jews (and non-Jews) loved

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By: Annegret Oehme

January 18, 2022

Have you heard of the Yiddish-language King Arthur stories written between the 14th – 18th centuries? These retellings of Arthurian tales for Jewish audiences were tremendously popular for centuries, though they aren’t…

Yiddish Word of the Day: Rain

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By: Forward

September 14, 2021

Yiddish Word of the Day: Rain

A Yom Kippur story

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By: Congress for Jewish Culture

September 13, 2021

The synagogue packed with people praying under their white tallises looks like “a forest of snow-covered trees” and everyone prays the same prayer, but under each tallis there is a…

Yiddish Word of the Day: Rosh Hashanah

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By: Forward

September 2, 2021

Yiddish Word of the Day: Rosh Hashanah

Yiddish Crosswords

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By: Forward

August 25, 2021

Thanks for visiting the Forward’s Yiddish Crosswords game! This will not work on your mobile phone, so please load it on a larger screen device like an iPad, or a…

Yosef Guri, who collected Yiddish proverbs, has died

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By: Bella Bryks Klein

April 29, 2021

ד״ר יוסף גורי, אַ פּראָפֿעסאָר פֿון רוסיש וואָס איז ווי אַ קינד על־פּי־נס ניצול געוואָרן פֿונעם חורבן און האָט געשטרעבט צו פֿאַראייביקן דאָס לשון פֿון זײַנע אומגעבראַכטע עלטערן, איז די…

David G. Roskies, “Rabbis, Rebbes and Other Humanists: The Search for a Usable Past in Modern Yiddish Literature”

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By: David G. Roskies, Academia

April 12, 2021

David G. Roskies, “Rabbis, Rebbes and Other Humanists: The Search for a Usable Past in Modern Yiddish Literature,” Studies in Contemporary Jewry 12 (1996): 55-77 These Zydki, wooden figurines of…

A Celebration of the Life and Work of Sholem Asch

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By: Jewish Website

February 25, 2021

An international celebration of Yiddish writer Sholem Asch’s life and work, including theater, films, music, photographs, sketches, satire, art, and family stories. Now in its 3rd year, Asch Wednesday 2021…

Yiddish professor goes viral in town hall with President Biden

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By: Jacob Kornbluh

February 18, 2021

President Joe Biden engaged in a rare moment of kvelling during a live broadcast of a CNN town hall in Milwaukee on Tuesday night. “I actually know some Yiddish,” Biden revealed during…