Yiddish

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Aaron Lansky built a home for 1.5 million Yiddish books. Now he’s handing over the keys.

The founding president of the Yiddish Book Center is retiring, confident that Yiddish literature has a future.

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Fania Brantsovsky, last living Vilna ghetto partisan resistance fighter, dies at 102

Remaining in Lithuania after the war, she became a keeper of the flame of the city’s once illustrious Yiddish culture.

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Frieda Johles Forman, ‘fiery’ feminist who rediscovered Yiddish women authors, dies at 87

“She was a feisty, brilliant and extraordinary woman,” recalled a colleague.

Culture

25 years after opening, Yiddish Book Center overhauls its core exhibit for a wider audience

Ideas

How Yiddish taught me to embrace the joy and defiance of being queer

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7 standout items from a new exhibit celebrating Yiddish New York

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March comes in with a roar of new Yiddish music

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On stage and in the classroom, Mikhl Yashinsky is stoking the flame of the Yiddish revival

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‘Fiddler on the Roof’ returns in Yiddish — and feels more relevant than ever

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Ex-Hasid who advised ‘Unorthodox’ comes out as trans while translating children’s sexuality guide into Yiddish

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