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Jewish-American Splendor

Harvey Pekar's final grumble.

By Sephora Markson Hartz

The Rise of Modern Yiddish Culture

Chaim Zhitlovsky — one man's contribution to Yiddish culture.

By David Fishman

Passionate Pioneers

The story of secular Yiddish education in North America, 1910-1960.

By Fradle Pomerantz Freidenreich

The Joke's on Irving Howe

A look at Yiddish books that

make us laugh.
By Neal Karlen

Yiddishkeit in America

"Food Will Win the War," United States Food Administration, ca. 1917

A lesson in language and identity.

By Irena Klepfisz

Still Outwitting History

A heimish look at the persistence

of Yiddish.
By Aaron Lansky

Some Totally Radical Women

The revolutionary use of Yiddish in the early 20^th century.

By Tony Michels

And the Award Goes to... Queer Yiddishkeit

Something queer's going on in the contemporary Yiddish scene.

By Kathleen Peratis

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