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  • A farewell to Hampshire College, site of my Yiddish awakening
  • Hampshire College closure reverberates for alumni who treasured a Yiddishist hub
  • Hampshire College, incubator of Yiddish Book Center and a Holocaust-studies pioneer, to close

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forward.com /1 month ago

A farewell to Hampshire College, site of my Yiddish awakening

Zay gezunt Hampshire College. That’s where as an undergrad student worker, I first studied Yiddish at the OG Yiddish Book Center of Amherst, Massachusetts, down the road from the g...

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forward.com /1 month ago

Hampshire College closure reverberates for alumni who treasured a Yiddishist hub

Hampshire College, once a hub for Yiddish scholarship thanks to its proximity to the Yiddish Book Center, will close by the end of the year amid financial challenges. The Yiddish B...

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jta.org /1 month ago

Hampshire College, incubator of Yiddish Book Center and a Holocaust-studies pioneer, to close

The Yiddish Book Center's founder, Aaron Lansky, graduated from Hampshire in 1973. -- The post Hampshire College, incubator of Yiddish Book Center and a Holocaust-studies pioneer,...

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forward.com /1 week ago

Interviews with Holocaust survivors reveal the richness of Yiddish

Many people today prize the Yiddish of native speakers who grew up in Eastern Europe before World War II, viewing it as a mark of linguistic authenticity. As a language of daily li...

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forward.com /1 month ago

VIDEO: A creative way to make Yiddish come alive in the classroom

לעסלי טערנער, אַ גראַדויִר־סטודענטקע אין פּראָפֿ׳ אַנאַ שטערנשיסעס קלאַס בײַם טאָראָנטאָ־אוניווערסיטעט, האַלט בײַם פֿאַרענדיקן אַ מאַגיסטער אין ייִדיש־לימודים. זי האַלט, אַז זי — א...

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forward.com /3 weeks ago

How Yiddish and Savta Sarah shaped my Jewish journey

I first fell in love with Jewish languages as a Fulbright fellow at Tel Aviv University. I was fascinated by the many languages that had converged in Israel: Hebrew, Arabic, Yiddis...

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forward.com /3 weeks ago

Tidbits: An inheritance of 200 pieces of Judaica finds a home

Tidbits is a Forverts feature of easy news briefs in Yiddish that you can listen to or read, or both! If you read the article and don’t know a word, just click on it and the transl...

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forward.com /3 weeks ago

A folksy approach to this year’s Yiddish symposium in Amsterdam

דעם 21סטן אַפּריל איז פֿאָרגעקומען דער יערלעכער אַמסטערדאַמער ייִדיש־סימפּאָזיום, נאָר דאָס יאָר איז עפּעס ניט געװען װי געװײנטלעך. איז מה נשתּנה, מיט װאָס איז דער הײַיאָריקער סימפּא...

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forward.com /1 day ago

Yiddish Glory resounds in China and Korea

די שאַפֿער פֿונעם מוזיקאַלישן פּראָיעקט „ייִדיש גלאָרי‟ — דער מוזיקער פּסוי קאָראָלענקאָ און די ייִדיש־פֿאָרשערין אַנאַ שטערנשיס — האָבן לעצטנס זיך אומגעקערט פֿון זייערע ערשטע אַזי...

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forward.com /3 weeks ago

Words of rescue: Yermiyahu Ahron Taub’s new book of poetry

עס זײַנען דאָ פּאָעטן װאָס זײַנען נבֿיאים, ווי למשל משה קולבאַק און חיים־נחמן ביאַליק. פֿאַראַן פּאָעטן פֿילאָסאָפֿן, װי עמילי דיקינסאָן אָדער אַהרן צײטלין. און טײל פּאָעטן זײַנען...

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wsls.com /1 month ago

A project to save rural synagogues grows from Maine to Montana

The Center for Small Town Jewish Life at Colby College is growing as Passover ends this year.

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forward.com /1 month ago

VIDEO: ’Love was there too:’ A Yom Hashoah commemoration in Yiddish

די פֿאַרגאַנגענע וואָך האָט דער „ייִדישפּיל“־טעאַטער אין תּל־אָבֿיבֿ אַרויסגעשטעלט אַ ווידעאָ פֿון אַ „יום־השואה“־אַקאַדעמיע וואָס די טרופּע האָט דורכגעפֿירט אין 2022. די טעמע פֿון...

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forward.com /1 month ago

Authentic Hasidic tales, translated into Polish

פֿאַר חסידישע מעשׂיות איז שטענדיק פֿאַראַן אַן עולם. אָט, אַ שטײגער, װעט באַלד אַרױס אַ נײַע דײַטשישע איבערזעצונג פֿון דעם פּױלישן שרײַבער סטאַניסלאַװ װינצענטס בעל־שם־טובֿ־לעגענדעס....

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forward.com /2 weeks ago

1912 Yiddish operetta tackles class conflict and women’s rights 

One of the smash hits of New York’s thriving Yiddish theater scene in the early 20th century grappled with socio-political issues that still resonate 100-plus years later. It’s com...

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forward.com /1 week ago

The bizarre antisemitic book that taught me to better understand Judaism

The pub bookshelf in Painswick, England, was stocked with books bound in handsome jewel tones. It seemed charming and innocuous, until I spotted a 1934 hardback with the alarmingly...

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forward.com /1 week ago

A Yiddish chorus in Sao Paulo, Brazil finds its voice again

אין סאַאָ־פּאַולאָ, דער גרעסטער שטאָט אין בראַזיל, האָט דער אײנציקער כאָר אין לאַנד װאָס זינגט אױסשליסלעך אױף ייִדיש, אַרױסגעגעבן אַן אַלבאָם װאָס קלינגט סײַ טיף פֿאַרװאָרצלט אין ט...

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forward.com /2 days ago

Inspired by a queer Bundist poet, this Jewish composer set her work to Yiddish music

Composer Avi Fox-Rosen, like many Jews looking for meaningful community outside of religion, found a spiritual home in music. “I think I was looking for, in some ways, a mentor or...

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forward.com /1 week ago

A Yiddish lecture in Munich by literature scholar Nathan Cohen

דעם 17טן יוני וועט נתן כּהן, אַן אָנגעזעענער פֿאָרשער פֿון דער ייִדישער ליטעראַטור בײַם בר־אילן אוניווערסיטעט, האַלטן אַ רעפֿעראַט אויף ייִדיש בײַם אוניווערסיטעט אויפֿן נאָמען פֿון...

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forward.com /4 weeks ago

Yiddish street signs: Commemoration or marginalization?

This is a revised translated version of the original article in Yiddish which you can read here. One sunny day in spring 2021, without asking permission, artist Sebestyén Fiumei cl...

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forward.com /1 month ago

Nearly forbidden: Street signs in an ‘unwanted’ language

דער קינסטלער שעבעשטיען פֿיומײ איז, אײן זוניקן טאָג אין פֿרילינג 2021, געשטיגן אױף אַ לײטער און אױפֿגעהאָנגען אַ װײַסן גאַסנשילד מיט ייִדישע אותיות׃ „גרענאַדיערשטראַסע“. װען נישט דע...

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forward.com /1 month ago

Tidbits: Traces of a ghetto bunker uncovered in Będzin, Poland

Tidbits is a Forverts feature of easy news briefs in Yiddish that you can listen to or read, or both! If you read the article and don’t know a word, just click on it and the transl...

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kveller.com /4 days ago

This Yiddish Word Fills Us With So Much Pride and Contentment

When I interviewed Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry back in 2024, Fry — who people often don’t realize is Jewish — mentioned a Yiddish word he finds particularly wonderful: Naches. I en...

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forward.com /1 month ago

A moving tribute to Soviet Jewry, with uncomfortable contemporary echoes

The first Yiddish Glory album, the Grammy-nominated Lost Songs of WWII, was, give or take, 70 years in the making. The idea of preserving Soviet-Jewish culture by way of an antholo...

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forward.com /1 month ago

Stumbling across Jewish history in a vintage store

I have never lived alone. I’ve never even lived with only my partner, at least not for all that long. We’ve always had roommates. And that means we’ve always had roommates’ stuff....

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