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Rediscovering Radical Rabbi Abraham Bick at the Site of the Former Institut far Yidisher Bildung

Rab­bi Abra­ham Bick unit­ed a seri­ous com­mit­ment to tra­di­tion­al Judaism with polit­i­cal rad­i­cal­ism in his short-lived New York City yeshi­va, the Insti­tut far Yidish­er Bildung.

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Freidus, Borokhov, and the Café Royal

Bak­er explores the career of Abra­ham S. Frei­dus, a reclu­sive, pio­neer­ing, and Yid­dish-the­ater-lov­ing Judaica librar­i­an. His research reveals the tight nexus that exist­ed a cen­tu­ry ago between a small coterie of East­ern Euro­pean-born Judaica librar­i­ans in the Unit­ed States; their phil­an­thropic patrons of Cen­tral Euro­pean back­ground; and the large­ly male, Yid­dish-speak­ing read­ers who fre­quent­ed the impor­tant Jew­ish libraries of that era. 

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Printable Bronx Bohemian Fashion Paper Dolls

Now you can play with your favorite Yid­dish cul­tur­al figures!

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Ain’t No Party Like a Shnorer Party: The Wild and Short Life of a Literary Support Group

The Shnor­er Asso­ci­a­tion, also some­times known as The Shnor­er Club, spon­sored a vari­ety of cul­tur­al events in New York City from 1915 through around 1925.

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