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Harvard's Judaica Division is distinguished by its possession of the only fully computerized Hebraica and Yiddish library catalogs in the world...
Your choice of 1,000 basic words in more languages than you will ever need, including Arabic, Yiddish, Serbo-Croatian and Swahili. SelecTronics...
From creating Yiddish operas to firefighting, from horseriding in Montana to fishing in Alaska, Harvard professors find interesting ways to spend their time away from the campus. No matter what their pastimes, one theme becomes clear: professors have lives...
...working on an opera in Yiddish based on a story that grew out of the Holocaust," he says. "It's the story of a person who had a chance to survive but didn...
...elder brother had been a rationalist and a radical. The younger one was apolitical and haunted by "a God who speaks in deeds, not in words, and whose vocabulary is the universe." The biblical and supernatural tales of youth provided the underpinnings of his work. As Singer's rickety Yiddish typewriter chattered away, the ghettos of the Middle Ages rose up again, with a cast of erotic shtetl dwellers and phosphorescent imps. The Jews of 20th century Europe, consumed by the Nazi death camps, were granted the powers of speech and lust...