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How Yiddish authors made a new world writing for children

An intrepid puppy who marches for labor rights. A 6-year-old girl who sews herself a locomotive to carry her away from her ...
The Times of Israel

At NY’s YIVO, a legendary unfinished Yiddish dictionary gets the last word — as opera

Premiering this week, 'The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language' tells the true story of Holocaust survivors and émigré scholars in NYC racing to salvage a civilization ...
The Forward

An unprecedented, and unfinished, work of Yiddish scholarship is now an opera

Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by Senior Writer Benyamin Cohen. When Ben Kaplan ...
The New York Times

The Dueling Scholars Who Bickered a Yiddish Dictionary Into Existence

The Jewish tradition of debate is at the center of a new chamber opera about two scholars clashing over a Yiddish dictionary in the aftermath of World War II. By Rob Tannenbaum Arguments, on topics ...
Jewish Exponent

Well-Known Comedic Duo Comes to Philly to Tell Tales of Judaism in Sweden

Explore the YidLife Crisis and its unique take on Jewish culture in Sweden. Discover the comedy behind Yiddish heritage.
The Times of Israel

Chava Alberstein talks about love of Yiddish, autobiography at fest

The beloved singer-songwriter shares stories from her autobiography, 'Canaan Alley,' at poetry festival relocated from Metula to Jerusalem ...
The Jewish Exponent

At YIVO, an Unfinished Yiddish Dictionary Gets the Last Word — as Opera

In the hallways of New York’s YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the story was told as a punchline: the great Yiddish dictionary project that took 25 years and never got beyond the first letter of ...