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• A Jewish Tale from Lithuania.

  Published: August 18, 2007, 1:38 pm

  Tags: Peoplehood, Yiddish, People, Diaspora, Europe Fsu

  my friend Dovid is talking Yiddish to a very elderly man in the row across from me. Then Dovid gets up and says Eli, would you mind accompanying this man home with me? He says his heart hurts. Davening Mincha has not begun. I hop out of my seat and the old man wraps his left arm around mine. His other hand hold Dovid's wrist. Dovid and I

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• Dan Kahn and the Painted Bird TONIGHT, 8 pm, Monday September 3

  Published: September 3, 2007, 12:10 pm

  Tags: Culture, Yiddish, Music, Diaspora, Arts Amp 038 Culture

  part wine cellar, in yiddish, german and english, and leans heavily both on Tom Waits and Brecht. With the most important new Jewish clarinetist under 30, Michael Winograd, the band takes Jewish music to a whole new level. And while the subject matter is heavy, they’ve also got some of the funniest material I’ve heard in a

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• The talented Mr. Katz

  Published: October 3, 2007, 12:01 pm

  Tags: Yiddish, Judaism, Holocaust, Media

  he had tacked a page of Yiddish text. Some of the paper's writers still submit handwritten material in Yiddish, often by fax, which Mr. Katz then types on a word processor and occasionally translates for the English supplement.In his years at The Forward, Mr. Katz, a short, round man with neatly combed white hair and bifocals (as opposed to

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• A Yiddish Revival, With New York Leading the Way

  Published: October 17, 2007, 10:15 am

  Tags: Top Story, Religion, Local History, Cultural Affairs, Immigration, Jews, Judaism, Museum Of The City Of New York, Yiddish

  Once a thriving tongue, Yiddish became somewhat endangered, but that is changing, according to panelists who discussed its future Tuesday night at the Museum of the City of New York.

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• Jewish Community Deathmatch: The rebbe, the king, and the scholar

  Published: October 26, 2007, 4:14 am

  Tags: Philanthropy, Yiddish, New York City, Identity Affiliation, Ethics, Shoah

  Guest post from ahavatcafe: On Thursday October 18, 2007, NYU's Bronfman Center hosted Orthodox Paradox: A Debate on Jewish Values, a panel presentation featuring Shmuley Boteach, Michael Steinhardt, and Noah Feldman, three controversial men with profoundly different conceptions of what Jewish values are and why they matter. Before diving

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• Mazl Tov April!

  Published: November 9, 2007, 1:59 pm

  Tags: Post Amp 038 Anti Zionism, Social Justice, Yiddish

  today. She is also an ardent Yiddishist and brings what I consider to be a Diaspora Nationalist perspective to her political analysis. So, mazl tov April!! I look forward to seeing what else you have in store for us! Share This

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• Japtivism

  Published: November 20, 2007, 1:00 pm

  Tags: Yiddish

  I coined the term Japtivism last year when I spent 20 minutes on the phone with a Victoria’s Secret (ugh, I know!) customer service representative last year convincing them that I DID NOT WANT any more catalogs. I did not want them once a month, I did not want them once a week. I did not want them in my house, I did not want them in the can,

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• Mechanics of the Blacklist, Part 1

  Published: November 28, 2007, 9:39 pm

  Tags: Activism, Socialism, Yiddish

  by the Morgn Freiheit, the Yiddish language Communist newspaper. Morris Schappes was the editor of Jewish Life and its second incarnation, Jewish Currents. Today, Jewish Currents is published by the Workmen’s Circle, an interesting development seeing as the politics of the two organizations have been at odds for a very long time.

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• Y.L Peretz: Vegn geshikhte/On History

  Published: November 29, 2007, 12:19 pm

  Tags: History, Peoplehood, Psychology, Yiddish

  from the Yiddish by Sol Liptzin) A Jew of my acquaintance sat down near me in a Warsaw park and asked me why I was so sad. “Graetz is dead,” I answered. “God’s will!” said my acquaintance. “One of our townsfolk, I suppose?” This question, which 90 percent of the Jews would have asked in his

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• Could "Vacation" Be a Foreign Oscar Contender?

  Published: December 4, 2007, 8:20 am

  Tags: Movies, Communism, Football, Soccer, The Year My Parents Went On Vacation, World Cup, Yiddish

  You may not have heard about "The Year My Parents Went on Vacation" yet, but you likely will. The film, which is billed as being in Portuguese, Yiddish and Hebrew (a bit of a misnomer since the Hebrew is all...

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• Attention Yiddish Party People, Tonight, Sunday, December 9

  Published: December 9, 2007, 12:24 pm

  Tags: Arts Amp 038 Culture, Coexistence, Culture, Diaspora, Yiddish

  me- there’s an amazing Yiddish dance party tonight, starting at 6:30, where, in conjunction with the big Yiddish dance symposium happening this afternoon, there will be something like 5 (million) Yiddish dance teachers leading and teaching Yiddish dances, along with a hot klezmer band. It’s going to be held at the Ukrainian East

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• Nu? holiday music

  Published: December 16, 2007, 5:27 pm

  Tags: Arts Amp 038 Culture, Christianity, Yiddish, Christmas

  This just in from Charming Hostess and Kugelplex: Return to the great Jewish themes of outsider-ness & redemption with “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”— in Yiddish! Performed by Kugelplex with vocals by Jewlia Eisenberg. Share This

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• Yiddish Theater on a Quiet Sunday Evening

  Published: February 3, 2008, 11:46 am

  Tags: Yiddish

  directed by Amy Coleman. In Yiddish with English super-titles. New Yiddish Rep at The Community Synagogue 325 E. 6th Street New York, NY 10003 917 670 1631 newyiddishrep.org Upcoming Monday Feb. 4th at 7 PM The Essence, a dim sum of Yiddish Theater An overview of Yiddish Theater from Abraham Goldfaden to the present day. Created

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• Coen Brothers to Direct Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union

  Published: February 12, 2008, 2:37 am

  Tags: Columbia Pictures, Fandom, Adaptation, The Buzz, Quotes, Deals, Fan Films, Comedy, Drama, Noir, Mystery Suspense, Action Adventure, A Serious Man, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Michael Chabon, Scott Rudin, The Yiddish Policemens Union

  2007 bestseller The Yiddish Policemen’s Union. Mega-producer Scott Rudin, who was behind the Coens’s No Country for Old Men as well as There Will Be Blood last year, helped bring the deal to fruition at Columbia Pictures (he also owns the rights to Chabon’s classic The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, read it if you

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• Oscar Award Winning Coen Brothers Pick Their Next Film

  Published: February 14, 2008, 10:14 am

  Tags: News, Literature, Entertainment, Movies, Columbia Pictures, Ethan Coen, Jewish, Joel Coen, Michael Chabon, No Country For Old Men, Oscar, The Coen Brothers, The Yiddish Policemans Union, Upcoming Film

  Their next film will be The Yiddish Policeman's Union, originally written by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon. The Yiddish Policeman's Union is a noir-esque murder mystery follows the story of Meyer Landsman, an alcoholic homicide detective. Though the book is set in the present day, it takes place in an alternate reality where the

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