Springtime with Moyshe-Leyb Halpern May always puts me in a good mood, mostly. The trees […]
Category: Yiddish Column
Some Yiddish roads lead to Rome…
My eldest son is a budding and enthusiastic Latinist, a noble and edifying interest if […]
The delights of the sky
On the first of March, for any “shtérnzeyers” (stargazers) out there, there was a remarkable […]
The intimacy of place in Yiddish literature
Inaccuracies and stereotypes surround the connections of Yiddish-speaking Jews to land. Study-bound scholars, or rootless […]
Trifles and trivialities
As we ring in the new year at a time of weighty things, beset as […]
Yiddish ways to discuss the divine
I’m not one given to thinking much about God, nor am I one of those […]
A Yiddish lullaby with a razor’s edge
At the risk of trying your patience with two columns in a row of poetry, […]
Yiddish as a perfect medium for autumnal musings
The angle of the sunlight changes. The trees shed their leaves in profusion. The call […]
Back to shul
September has arrived and with it the start of new semesters everywhere. School and scholarship […]
Summer nosh with a side of Yiddish
Thank you for your forbearance during last month’s hiatus. I’m back now and we’re off […]