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.
View Article“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...
View ArticleReconstruction 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.
View ArticleYiddish Hidden in English
EX137_552 Charles Corfield muses about how much Yiddish has been absorbed into English. Charles Corfield
View ArticleBest 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
View ArticleIntimate 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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