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Passing Yiddish Down in the Family

EX211_2005 Chana Gonshor, born in 1919 in Warsaw, proudly explains how many of her children, grandchildren, and even in-laws understand and/or speak Yiddish.

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“Staunchly Apolitical: On the Usefulness of Being Politically Unaligned

EX412_3071 Kamil Kijek, doctoral student in History at the Polish Academy of Science in Warsaw, explains what a privilege it is to be apolitical, and how past generations' strict ideological...

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Reconstruction Becomes Excavation: 11th Century Jewish Community

EX137_583 Charles Corfield talks about the discovery of an 11th century Jewish community in Cambridge, England during a construction project. 

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Yiddish Hidden in English

EX137_552 Charles Corfield muses about how much Yiddish has been absorbed into English. Charles Corfield

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Best Words, Best Order

Date ISO 8601: March, 2008Photographer:  Ben Barnhart From France, the latest in a long line of Yiddish dictionaries.Attached Files: Best Words, Best Orderread more

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Intimate Argot: American Jewish Speech Patterns

Date ISO 8601: March, 2010 What we say, and what we think about itAttached Files: PT61_pp_18-21_survey_sm.pdfread more

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