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For Yiddish writers, their works regarding African Americans revealed their projection of what it meant to be Black, just as those of Harlem Renaissance writers projected their concept of what it meant to be Jewish, all in a milieu which saw the redefinition of what it meant to be black, ...
for a future Nazi institute for the study of “Judaism without Jews.” They were to select important material so that the rest could be pulped. Dubbing themselves
Not a word for polite company.Bubkesorbobkesmay be related to the Polish word for “beans”, but it really means “goat droppings” or “horse droppings.” It’s often used by American Jews for “trivial, worthless, useless, a ridiculously small amount” – less than nothing, so to spea...
Oh no, no, NO! What I meant to say was our lovely and talented water heater has worked hard for so very long that we really should be planning its well-deserved retirement. Yes, that sounds so much nicer. (You never know who is listening, and I’m not about to tempt Fate!) ...
Did Claire Barry know what her music meant to the world? “I hope she did,” said Breier, who told the Forward he and Barry considered each other family. “I accompanied her for the last 20 years to almost every event. And I would see the love. People would come with tea...
18 Moreover, in some of the cases where entire linguistic units are meant to be perceived as German, there are obvious signs of interference from authentic Yiddish; cf., for example, the authentically Yiddish verb-second word order in the subordinate clause of the following sentence:16 Cf. ...
For some,U.S. policy on Israelis the deciding factor above and beyond all others, and increasingly, that has meant that Republican politicians win Orthodox communities in a landslide. While some Orthodox views of the world are conservative ones, a stance that is against abortion in all cases ...
and what you do for fun. The older you get, the harder it is to keep up with music and to keep going to shows, and to maintain your fandom and feel that intensity. So marrying someone who’s in the music world meant that I was going to all these shows still, all the way ...
He is also the nonrotating co-chair of GWF controlling tens of millions meant for Lithuanian Jewry.RECENT HISTORY OF THE DEBATE Do the leaders and supporters of the AJC know of its unethical and destructive activities in Lithuania over many years? How AJC’s Andrew Baker responds to a ...