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Berlin Yiddish Society Column: Sutzkever's Yortsayt

Jan­u­ary 19th, 2020. A small gallery in Berlin’s Kreuzberg dis­trict is crowd­ed and abuzz to hon­or the tenth anniver­sary of the death of Avrom Sutzkev­er with poet­ry, music, and visu­al art.

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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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Yiddish and Berlin: A complex yet fruitful relationship?

The con­tin­u­ing rel­e­vance of Yid­dish in Berlin high­lights Yid­dish not only as a means of com­mu­ni­ca­tion but as a sym­bol of cul­tur­al and polit­i­cal resistance.

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Yiddishist Community in Intertwined Languages: 27th Symposium for Yiddish Studies in Germany (Düsseldorf)

The Sym­po­sium for Yid­dish Stud­ies in Ger­many is a unique con­fer­ence that reflects the pos­si­bil­i­ties that are avail­able with two lin­guis­ti­cal­ly-relat­ed languages.

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