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Yiddish

Lila Thielmans in the new documentary "Yiddish." (Photo/Courtesy Icarus Films)
Posted inFilm

‘Yiddish’ documentary spotlights 20th-century poets and their 21st-century admirers

by Michael Fox March 1, 2021March 3, 2021
Author Emma Wolf's novel "Heirs of Yesterday" is in print once more with a new edition.
Posted inCulture

Early S.F. author Emma Wolf, ‘mother of American Jewish fiction,’ gets a new reprint 120 years later

by Liz Harris February 28, 2021February 28, 2021
President Joe Biden participates in a CNN town hall at the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Feb. 16, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Saul Loeb-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Biden: white supremacists are ‘most dangerous people’ in America

by Ron Kampeas and JTA February 17, 2021
A young Flory Jagoda, the woman who would go on to become the doyenne of Ladino music.
Posted inOpinion

We’re running out of time to preserve endangered Jewish languages. Here’s how we can stop them from being lost forever.

Sarah Bunin Benor by Sarah Bunin Benor and JTA February 9, 2021
Naomi Newman as Reb Eli in the upcoming Zoom play "God of Vengeance." (Photo/Courtesy Newman)
Posted inTheater

Local treasure Naomi Newman: 90 years old and still acting

by Dan Pine February 1, 2021February 8, 2021
From the cover of “The Language of Thieves: My Family's Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate” by Martin Puchner.
Posted inOff the Shelf

Two new books burrow into Yiddish and the ‘language of thieves’

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman January 15, 2021January 15, 2021
Jared Bernstein shown at a White House press briefing as Joe Biden's chief economic adviser, June 8, 2009. (Photo/JTA-Nicholas Kamm-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

Jared Bernstein is ‘verklempt’ to join Biden’s council of economic advisers

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman and JTA November 30, 2020November 30, 2020
A Works Progress Administration poster for a production of "It Can't Happen Here" in Detroit during World War II. (Photo/Library of Congress)
Posted inTheater

Demagogue president revived in Yiddish theater’s new take on 1936 play

Josefin Dolsten by Josefin Dolsten and JTA October 29, 2020
Joe Isaac, left, and Morgan Halleb are founders of the Pink Peacock cafe in Glasgow. (Image/JTA-Courtesy Pink Peacock)
Posted inWorld

Glasgow’s queer Yiddish anarchist cafe aims to spark a Jewish revolution in Scotland

by Jacob Judah August 26, 2020August 28, 2020
(Graphic/JTA-illustration by Grace Yagel; photos by United Artists-Getty Images)
Posted inUncategorized

We simply do not need another ‘Fiddler on the Roof’

by A.R. Vishny July 8, 2020

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