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I attended the YIVO summer program—a six-week intensive Yiddish immersion course at the YIVO Archive in New York, which is one of the biggest centers for Jewish history, and specifically for Yiddish study, in the world. While there, I was exposed to several different "Yiddishes," or dialects of the language that were and, in some cases, still are spoken.


For so many of us in America today, Yiddish is the language of a mythicized shtetl, or maybe of borscht-belt humor, or gefilte fish.

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Two new Yiddish music albums place Dropkin's work, along with that of other 20th-century Yiddish poets, into 21st-century musical settings, illuminating an oft-overlooked body of work for contemporary listeners.


Celebrated Yiddish poet Rivka Basman Ben-Haim died last week at the age of 98. She was the last living Yiddish poet of her generation.


To her early 20th-century audience, Tsilye Dropkin's Yiddish poetry was as shocking for its content as its form.

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