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How can Yiddishists call a massacre of Jews ‘resistance’?

Helen Paloge in Forward · 7 Oct

Helen Paloge critiques the stance of GLYK, a queer Yiddish theater collective, which has aligned with Palestinians post-October 7th attacks, viewing it as a misunderstood stance on genocide and resistance.

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This artist paints portraits of today’s Yiddishists

ZGolden in Forward · 22 Feb 2023

Silvia Wagensberg, a retired Spanish teacher and artist, has painted portraits of Yiddishists as part of her artistic expression.

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My father spoke like Tevye the Dairyman – but with a Polish-Yiddish dialect

RSchaechter in Forward · 14 Jun 2022

The author shares the story of their father, a Holocaust survivor who spoke multiple languages including Yiddish.

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The ideological journey of the Forverts in the first half of the 20th century

Forward · 28 Jan 2022

The book "Transatlantic Russian Jewishness: Ideological Voyages of the Yiddish Daily Forverts in the First Half of the Twentieth Century" by Gennady Estraikh explores the history of the Forverts, a Yiddish newspaper, and its editor Abraham Cahan.

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The “Bodies of Evidence & Evidence of Bodies” Edition

Promised Podcast · 5 Aug 2021

Times of Israel Ops & Blogs editor Miriam Herschlag, Ohad Zeltzer-Zubida, and Noah Efron discuss the prohibition of using improperly obtained evidence in Israeli courts.

0 Israel Politics

The “And What If You Don’t Will It?” Edition

Promised Podcast · 18 Jul 2019

In this discussion, Don Futterman, Noah Efron, and Sandy Fox touch on three main topics: the possibility of true Jewish-Arab partnership on the Israeli Left, a group of Jewish-American figures advocating for moving away from Zionism, and the legacy of socialist, internationalist Yiddishists in Israel as their Tel Aviv headquarters closes.