News Source: Nextbook
| about 1 year ago
Patriotism's Many Tongues Rukhl Schaechter points to Yiddish translations of the national anthem (one from 1943, another from '47) to quell fury from some quarters over a Spanish version . Singing the "Star Spangled Banner" in other languages doesn't...
News Source: Nextbook
| about 1 year ago
Nadav’s book—a scholarly companion to Pinsk’s massive 1966 Yizkor book—opens a wide window onto a remarkable place, a centuries-old citadel of rabbinical learning, Hasidic piety, Hebrew and Yiddish literature, theater, journalism, grand...