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Category Archives: Yiddish
The Gravestone Carver: An Intellectual Biography of Chaim Grade
Chaim Grade was born in Vilna in 1910 into a household that already contained the central conflict of his life. His father Shloyme-Mordkhe was a Hebrew teacher, a Zionist, a maskil shaped by the Jewish Enlightenment, who scraped together a … Continue reading
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Yiddish Was The First Language Of Every Jew In Eastern Europe
In his first lecture on Rav Elchanan Wasserman for Torah in Motion, Marc Shapiro says: “Yiddish was the first language of every Jew in eastern Europe except for very assimilated Jews in Warsaw. You had some who raised their children … Continue reading
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The Meaning Of Schlonged
J.J. Goldberg writes: …“Schlonged” isn’t just “schlong” plus “-ed.” Some background: I grew up on Long Island in the 1950s and ’60s, not too far from Trump’s Queens neighborhood and around the same time. Where we lived, “schlonged” was an … Continue reading
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Yiddish Theater: A Love Story
Danielle Berrin writes: The story was their own. At the turn of the 21st century, a veteran actress struggles to keep Yiddish theater alive in New York. She desperately searches for money and a miracle to extend the run of … Continue reading