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The Tsene-rene: In Search of a Seventeenth-Century Yiddish Bible in Modern-Day Jerusalem
Avi Blitz
Avi Blitz discusses the popularity and gender-inflected attitude toward the Tsene-rene in Haredi communities in contemporary Israel.
May 06, 2019
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Shtisel’s Ghosts: The Politics of Yiddish in Israeli Popular Culture
Shayna Weiss
An Israeli TV show about the Hasidic Shtisel family explores the country’s complicated language politics.
Mar 06, 2016