Yiddish Column – The American Israelite Newspaper

The delights of the sky

On the first of March, for any “shtérnzeyers” (stargazers) out there, there was a remarkable

Inaccuracies and stereotypes surround the connections of Yiddish-speaking Jews to land. Study-bound scholars, or rootless

As we ring in the new year at a time of weighty things, beset as

I’m not one given to thinking much about God, nor am I one of those

At the risk of trying your patience with two columns in a row of poetry,

The angle of the sunlight changes. The trees shed their leaves in profusion. The call

September has arrived and with it the start of new semesters everywhere. School and scholarship

Thank you for your forbearance during last month’s hiatus. I’m back now and we’re off

Here in Cincinnati, we love our books. As a librarian, this makes Cincinnati a wonderful

A propos to nothing in particular, I was thinking recently about the names of the