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Thirteen hours of classic and modern Jewish stories by renowned authors—among them
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Ansky's The Dybbuk has been made into two films and three operas and has been staged all over the world
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Scholars of Jewish literature chronicle the Jewish encounter with modernity and document female strategies for constructing intellectual and emotional identities amidst the competing demands of traditional norms
Yiddish: Biography of a Language by Jeffrey Shandler eBook Thirteen hours of classic andThe most widely spoken Jewish language on the eve of the Holocaust, Yiddish continues to play a significant role in Jewish life today, from Hasidim for whom it is a language of daily life to avant garde performers, political activists, and LGBTQ writers turning to Yiddish for inspiration. Yiddish: Biography of a Language presents the story of this centuries old language, the defining vernacular of Ashkenazi Jews, from its origins to the present.
