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- Post-World-War-II American Jewry and the confrontation with catastrophe
- From the perspective of early-twenty-first-century American Jewish communal culture, few issues loom as large or carry as much valence in the performance of Jewish identity as the Holocaust, the horrific destruction of six million Jews at the hands of the Nazis and the obliteration of their communities. That cataclysmic event...
- Research articles 2003-09-01
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- The Paradox of Yiddish
- Sandler, Boris Forward 12-01-2000 The Paradox of Yiddish The "Summit Conference for Yiddish and Yiddish Culture" that took place two weeks ago at the Palace of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg should be regarded as an important, historic event....
- Research articles 2000-12-01
- Parley on Yiddish Illuminates Clash of Cultures
- Forward 11-15-1996 Parley on Yiddish Illuminates Clash of Cultures. COLLEGE PARK, Maryland -- One would hardly think that academic papers on the Yiddish of Chasidim and new Yiddish prayers for women would qualify as the last word in heresy, but that seemed to be...
- Research articles 1996-11-15
- DER YIDDISH-VINKL; A WEEKLY BRIEFING ON THE MOTHER TONGUE
- Forward 01-07-2005 On the occasion of his 20th yahrzeit, the Forverts featured Wolf Hochman Younin on the pages devoted to Pearls of Yiddish Poetry. Younin was a multidimensional man -- a Yiddish poet, a journalist, a language researcher, and a creator and editor...
- Research articles 2005-01-07
- DER YIDDISH-VINKL; A WEEKLY BRIEFING ON THE MOTHER TONGUE
- Forward 08-13-2004 On the occasion of his 20th Yortzeit (1984), the Forverts featured Wolf Hochman Younin on the pages devoted to Pearls of Yiddish Poetry. Younin was a multidimensional man -- a Yiddish poet, a journalist, a language researcher and a creator and...
- Research articles 2004-08-13
- NPR Celebrates 'Golden Age' Of Yiddish Radio; 1,000 Rescued Discs Offer One-Of-A-Kind Window On Immigrant Culture
- NEW YORK, Feb. 4 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Some 1,000 fragile aluminum discs -- one-of-a-kind recordings from the "Golden Age" of Yiddish radio (1930-55) -- have been rescued from attics, storerooms, and even dumpsters and restored for a special seriesNEW YORK, Feb. 4 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Some 1,000 fragile aluminum discs...
- Research articles 2002-02-04
- ISRAEL: IAF RESCUES STRANDED PEOPLE USING YIDDISH.(Israeli Air Force)(Brief Article)
- According to Maariv International, for the first time in the history of the IAF, a search and rescue operation was completed successfully due to the use of Yiddish. At about midnight last night, a call was received at an IAF's Yasur Sikorsky squadr According to Maariv...
- Research articles 2004-08-05
- Yiddish Journalist Gershon Jacobson, 71
- Forward 06-03-2005 Veteran Yiddish journalist Gershon Jacobson died of heart failure in New York on May 29. He was 71. Jacobson served as the editor-in-chief and publisher of The Algemeiner Journal since its inception in 1972. It is the country's largest-circulation...
- Research articles 2005-06-03
- Mikva, Yiddish-Bred, Tapped by White House
- Gabriel Kahn Forward 08-19-1994 Mikva, Yiddish-Bred, Tapped by White House. FORWARD STAFF WASHINGTON -- When Abner Mikva takes over as White House counsel in six weeks, he will become President Clinton's second counsel to claim Yiddish as his native tongue....
- Research articles 1994-08-19
- Leading Yiddish linguist Mordkhe Schaechter dies at 79
- WASHINGTON AFP — Mordkhe Schaechter, who dedicated his life to preserving Yiddish as a living language, has died in the United States, aged 79, a US paper reported. Schaechter, who was born in Romania, died in a hospital in the north Bronx after a long illness, his daughter Rukhl...
- Research articles 2007-02-17
- DER YIDDISH-VINKL; A WEEKLY BRIEFING ON THE MOTHER TONGUE
- Forward 01-28-2005 The news item that the inimitable Stanley Siegelman chose for his column this week is the announcement that California's Stanford University is now offering a three-year program in the study of Yiddish literature. Here it is, in Siegelman's very own brand...
- Research articles 2005-01-28
- Yiddish's New Frequency: `The Yiddish Radio Project' airs immigrant humor and pathos on NPR.
- Belasco, Daniel The Jewish Week 03-15-2002 Only the gentlest prodding gets Dave Isay and Henry Sapoznik to sputter superlatives about "The Yiddish Radio Project," the serendipitous act of cultural reclamation they co-produced, which airs on National Public Radio starting this Tuesday....
- Research articles 2002-03-15
- Yiddish Radio Returns.(Brief Article)
- By IsraeliWire.com Keep an ear open to your local NPR station for the Yiddish Radio Project, a documentary about Yiddish radio of the 1930s and '40s that will be aired on All Things Considered starting March 19. For more information and to...
- Research articles 2002-03-05
- Yiddish Words Gain Recognition in American Dictionary's New Edition
- 00-00-0000 It may mean bubkes to some, but oy, does it mean a lot to others. This week, a major force in the American dictionary establishment recognized two of the Yiddish language's most common slang words. Merriam-Webster released the 11th edition of its dictionary...
- Research articles 2003-07-04
- Oy gevalt! Google Translate adds 9 new languages, including Yiddish
- Filed under: Google , Web Google has added 9 new languages to its web-based translation service. That means Google Translate now supports 51 different languages, and 2550 language pairs. Google Translate already had dozens of widely used languages including English,...
- News items 2009-08-31
- Yiddish and Jewish scholar dies
- BERKELEY -- Eli Katz, a leading scholar of Yiddish and Jewish studies who was the focus of a loyalty oath dispute and a fight for academic freedom at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s, died July 22 at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center after suffering a third stroke....
- Research articles 2006-08-02
- YIVO's Unlikely New Chief: Director Enlivens Archive, Learns Yiddish
- Forward 03-14-1997 YIVO's Unlikely New Chief: Director Enlivens Archive, Learns Yiddish. NEW YORK -- The first decision Tom Freudenheim made when he became the executive director of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research was to have the dark walls in its 57th Street offices...
- Research articles 1997-03-14
- Bomb Scare Mars Lithuanian Parley: Conference Highlights City's Yiddish Past, Sparks Controversy
- Greene, S.A. Forward 08-31-2001 Bomb Scare Mars Lithuanian Parley: Conference Highlights City's Yiddish Past, Sparks Controversy VILNIUS, Lithuania -- Jewish visitors here got an unpleasant surprise this week when a bomb scare disrupted a conference on Lithuanian Jewry. ...
- Research articles 2001-08-31
- Traveling Back to a Place of the Past: Andrew Goldberg's 'A Yiddish World Remembered' To Premiere on PBS
- Gross, Max Forward 08-09-2002 Reminiscing about his childhood in Oshmana, Belarus, Michal Baran describes the delirious odors of the Sabbath dinners he smelled as he walked through his shtetl on Friday nights. "The smell of the gefilte fish," he says, wistfully,...
- Research articles 2002-08-09
- Jewish Lesson. (Poetry).(Poem)
- JEWISH LESSON One day Yiddish stopped speaking to me. she became as deaf and dumb to my wanting cries as a rebbetsin to the wooing of an evangelist. I ran through the...
- Research articles 2003-07-01
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