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El Muzeo Arkeologiko de Istanbul

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PUEDER VER I TOKAR LA HISTORIA….. No me importa kuantes vezes ya me fui a vijitar este impozante edifisyo adjasente al palasyo de Topkapi ande los Sultanes Otomanos renyaron sovre el mas grande emperyo del...

The Story Behind “Fiddler” – A FREE Online Course

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Harvard Professor Ruth Wisse teaches Sholem Aleichem's Tevye the Dairyman Discover Tevye—the most well-known Jew in fiction—in a whole new light. Dive into the rich, complex, and wonderfully entertaining world of Yiddish literature. ...

September 17, 1724: Glückel Of Hamelnm, Yiddish writer, died on this date

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Glikl bas Judah Leib, or Glückel of Hameln, a diarist whose writings in Yiddish provided scholars with an intimate picture of German Jewish ghetto life in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, died on this...
Lerwick, Shetland Islands, Aug. 24, 2010. Credit: Gilles Messian via Wikimedia Commons.

Back home in the Shetlands, a taste of nostalgia and singular Jewish life

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It was SRO, standing-room only—an amazing turnout. Young and old, locals and tourists, poured into the venue as part of my travels “back home.” They came, anxious to listen to my book talk and...
A view of Israel's Lotem Winery in the Galilee. Photo by Dror Arzi.

Israeli government makes wine a smart brand to export culture and identity abroad

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As Israel’s government ministries endeavor to represent and communicate the singularity and attractiveness of Israeli culture and industry to audiences abroad, wine has topped the list as one way to effectively represent Israeli culture...

“Fiddler in Yiddish”, You’ll love “Yiddish Flavors of Love”!

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Sunday, September 15, 2019 The "Ides" of September 3:00 p.m. Performed by The Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus / JPPC Binyumen Schaechter, Conductor Seth Weinstein, Pianist ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS PROVIDED Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, New York City $40 $30 for groups of at...

Barry Manilow Musical Announced

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National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene at the Museum of Jewish Heritage A Living Memorial to the Holocaust Edmond J. Safra Plaza 36 Battery Place New York, NY 10280 BOX OFFICE 212-213-2120 ext 200
A Paris travel journal and Kafka manuscript from the literary estate of Max Brod. Credit: National Library of Israel.

Last batch of Brod and Kafka papers return to Israel after decades in Swiss...

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The final batch of personal papers belonging to Max Brod,—one of Czech writer Franz Kafka’s closest confidants—was transferred to the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem on Wednesday after decades of legal battles to...
Toni Morrison speaking in 2008. Credit: Angela Radulescu via Wikimedia Commons.

Toni Morrison, who accused Israel of ‘liquidation of the Palestinian nation,’ dies at 88

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Nobel laureate Toni Morrison died on Monday at the age of 88, announced the publishing company Alfred A. Knopf, adding that the cause was complications from pneumonia. One of America’s greatest novelists, her 1987 book Beloved won a Pulitzer...
One of the vases stolen by the Nazis, returned to the family of the Jewish victims. Credit: FBI.

Nazi-stolen artwork, vases returned to Jewish families in Germany after 80 years

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Goods stolen by the Nazis 80 years ago were returned to descendants of their original Jewish owners in two separate cases in Germany. On Monday in Munich, nine works of art, including paintings, casts and engravings,...