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‘Faust’ author Goethe’s fascination with Yiddish

As a young man, Goethe visited Jewish schools in Frankfurt, and even attended a circumcision and a Jewish wedding ...
The Forward

Andrea Pancur, singer who bridged German and Yiddish song traditions, dies at 54

(JTA) — Andrea Pancur, a Munich-based singer, teacher and activist who helped bridge the worlds of German and Yiddish song culture — and who served as role model for women in the world of klezmer ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Yiddish Lives — and Jeffrey Shandler Writes Its Biography

Jeffrey Shandler was skeptical when asked by Oxford University Press to write a “biography” of Yiddish, wondering if treating the language as you would a person would be no more than a gimmick. But ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

The Place of Yiddish Among Near-german Languages: Yiddish Section for German Academy’s Institute of

The German Academy (Akademie zur wissenschaftlischen Erforschung und zur Pflege des Deutschtums) has published the draft programme of a projected Yiddish Section of its Near-Languages Institute. The ...
WRAL

Finding a Voice in German, Through Yiddish

BERLIN — Deborah Feldman has learned to follow the sun. December marks the 31-year-old Brooklyn-raised writer’s fourth winter living in Berlin, a place notorious for its long, gray months, and by now ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

‘The Tongue Is the Pen of the Heart': As Yiddish ‘Dies,’ Yiddish Lives

In his precise, already canonical The Meaning of Yiddish (University of California Press, 1990), Israeli-American scholar Benjamin Harshav recalled how Max Weinreich (1894-1969), author of the ...
The New York Times

Reporting in Yiddish, Without Speaking Yiddish

In an Australian community working to preserve its identity, a journalist found subjects with plenty of questions for her. By Natasha Frost The ground rules were simple: I would report an article on ...