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GUY KLAIMAN with Amnon Ben-David, CEO of Eshet Tours.

Grapevine, February 28, 2024: Heroes then and now

By GREER FAY CASHMAN

Women protest calling for the government to find a solution to have the hostages released, outside Hakirya Base (Military Defense Headquarters) in Tel Aviv, February 1, 2024. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90

Can literature soothe the trauma of war?

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

JAPANESE AND Israelis join forces in the Japanese ‘Kakizome’ ceremony, in a Japanese gesture of solidarity with the hostages held in Gaza.

Grapevine, January 24, 2024: An error of omission

By GREER FAY CASHMAN

A scene from "The Zone of Interest"

The real Auschwitz commandant — and Yiddish resistance song — behind ‘The Zone of Interest’

By ANDREW LAPIN/JTA

Ruth Seymour, raised in the Bronx, turned KCRW in Los Angeles into a public radio powerhouse and produced a series of programs on Yiddish short stories.

Ruth Seymour, public radio pioneer devoted to Jewish culture, dies at 88

By Jon Kalish/JTA

HUNGARIAN JEWS on the ‘selection’ ramp at Auschwitz II-Birkenau in occupied Poland, spring 1944. This photo is from the ‘Auschwitz Album,’ the only surviving visual evidence of the mass murder process at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

'Unearthed': Holocaust history on the trail of a Yiddish theater actress - review

By MIRIAM KATES LOCK

A copy of Say It In Yiddish.

Yiddish book center unveils new core exhibit

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL / JTA

A Jewish siddur written in Hebrew.

Israeli Hebrew didn’t kill Yiddish, as new NYC exhibit shows it gave a new nest to live - opinion

By GHIL'AD ZUCKERMANN/JTA

THE NEW YORK Times building in Manhattan.

NYT op-ed: Hebrew symbolizes 'far-right Israeli militarism'

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

A German daily called Andrea Pancur "the most important representative of Yiddish culture in Germany."

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

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL / JTA

PARTICIPANTS GATHER for the annual Jerusalem March for Pride and Tolerance.

How Yiddish taught me to embrace the joy and defiance of being queer

By NOA BARON/JTA

A poster advertising Dzigan and Schumacher

The way it really was! Some faces and facets of Yiddish humor

By AVRAHAM AVI-HAI

American actor Gene Wilder performs during the rehearsal of a scene from Neil Simon’s ‘Laughter on the 23rd Floor’ in 1996.

How can you define Jewish humor? - opinion

By PESSY KRAUSZ

ALON GOLDMAN (left), BMW marketing manager, at Delek Motors with Dr. Doron Kreiser and his racing car.

Grapevine June 28, 2023: A missed anniversary

By GREER FAY CASHMAN

‘WANDERING STARS’ tells the tale of a love lost in the shtetl and refound in New York.

Classic Yiddish tale 'Wandering Stars' gets Jerusalem musical adaptation

JERUSALEM MAYOR Moshe Lion with Shlomo Hasid.

Grapevine June 23, 2023: New Jerusalem icon

By GREER FAY CASHMAN

A cup of coffee (Illustrative)

Glasgow's Yiddish-speaking cafe shuts down after alleging antisemitism from 'leftists'

By JACOB JUDAH/JTA

Anatoly Kaplan and his wife, Yevgenia.

The last Yiddish artist: Work of Anatoly Kaplan on display in Jerusalem

By MORDECHAI BECK