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At the end of the twentieth century, Chaim Grade preserved the memory of a Jewish tradition besieged by the forces of ...

BOSTON (JTA) — In the despair of the Soviet Union’s fierce World War II battles against the Nazis, a 42-year-old Jewish man from Odessa wrote a song in Yiddish poking fun at Hitler’s ...

Read the original Yiddish article. We’ve all heard the stereotypes about cowboys. But few people know that Texas has always ...

A coalition of strictly religious Jews and progressive, secular, and young Jews have been drawn to the language.

Artifacts from 1,000 years of Ashkenazi Jewish life including literary transcripts, Herzl's diary, everyday notes and ...

No, you’re not seeing double. Clad in matching outfits, Yiddish singing duo The Shvesters (Yiddish for “The Sisters”) ...

Historically it’s a protest song written by Yiddish-speaking demonstrators calling for an end to czar Nicholas and the ruling class of late 19th, early 20th-century Russia. But Frey created a ...

translated by Rose Waldman There’s a new old writer headed for the front tables of bookstores. The Lithuania-born Chaim Grade, who died in 1982, was one of the heavies of Yiddish literature in ...

The Yiddish poet Chaim Grade survived World War ... Grade, having fashioned a world in which the old fights mattered, now gets to win them. Ostrover is Singer, of course, and Edelshtein could ...