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Essays, interviews, listicles, podcasts, and much more, covering all aspects of Yiddish culture.

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Die Zweiflers and Frankfurt's Yiddish Underworld

The new ARD mini-series Die Zwei­flers (The Zwei­flers), a Ger­man TV, depicts the involve­ment of four gen­er­a­tions of a Jew­ish fam­i­ly and their involve­ment in the red-light dis­trict in post-Holo­caust Frank­furt, and dis­plays their usage of Yid­dish as it shifts over generations.

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Family Photos: A Yiddishist Looks at Mischpoche

What Andreas Mühe’s Mis­ch­poche beck­ons is a Yid­dish kvetsh—some­one to squeeze the term, pinch and press it, artic­u­late where the stress should fall.

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Beyond the Theater of Memory: Reflections on Yiddish Singing in the German-Speaking World

Isabel Frey reflects on the chal­lenges and pos­si­bil­i­ties of per­form­ing Yid­dish music as a Jew­ish per­former in Ger­many and Aus­tria beyond the insu­lat­ed Berlin klezmer scene.

Interview

"We Should Not Create Enemies": Europe's Refugee Crisis and Yiddish Song

Aus­tri­an shep­herd Hans Breuer on dri­ving refugees across the bor­der, and get­ting famous for singing Yid­dish songs. 

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