Tag: Yiddishists

Silvia Wagensberg, a retired Spanish teacher and artist, has painted portraits of Yiddishists as part of her artistic expression.
The author shares the story of their father, a Holocaust survivor who spoke multiple languages including Yiddish.
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.
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.
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.