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Yiddish-language

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  • Yiddish-language newspapers during the 1920s and 1930s paid careful attention to black-Jewish relations and helped establish what might be called the liberal Jewish view on race.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • Based on writings by the Yiddish-language author Sholom Aleichem, "Fiddler on the Roof" seemed to be an unlikely candidate for Broadway success when it premiered in 1964.

    Jerry Bock, Broadway composer of 'Fiddler on the Roof, dies at 81 Matt Schudel 2010

  • Poetic Obituaries: Avrom Sutzkever, the Yiddish-language poet who died January 20 at the age of 96, lived the tragedies and glories of modern Eastern European Jewish culture.

    Archive 2010-02-01 Rus Bowden 2010

  • Poetic Obituaries: Avrom Sutzkever, the Yiddish-language poet who died January 20 at the age of 96, lived the tragedies and glories of modern Eastern European Jewish culture.

    Poetic Obituaries: Avrom Sutzkever, the Yiddish-language poet Rus Bowden 2010

  • Her father, whose pen-name was Sfog (Sponge), was one of the editors of Ha-Zefirah, Ha-Am and Olam Katan, and also wrote for other Hebrew and Yiddish-language newspapers.

    Yemima Tchernovitz-Avidar. 2009

  • She has contributed essays and reviews to the Montreal Gazette, as well as to numerous Yiddish-language publications.

    Chava Rosenfarb. 2009

  • In the 1920s and 1930s, Yiddish-language theater played out the dramatic transition from Old Country to new and the traumatic process of immigrant adjustment.

    Celia Adler. 2009

  • She contributed over fifty poems, essays, and translations to Russian and Yiddish-language journals and newspapers on her dual interests in the high arts and politics, as well as producing three volumes of symbolist poetry, several histories on topics relating to the Bund, and a biography of her father.

    Sophia Dubnow-Erlich. 2009

  • The Morgen Frayhayt, the communist Yiddish-language daily established in New York in 1922, soon gained more readers than the whole Workers Party had members.

    Communism in the United States. 2009

  • Many came to the party through the Jewish Federation, a Yiddish-language organization that originated in the Socialist Party and defected to the communists in 1922.

    Communism in the United States. 2009

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