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In Yiddish, one colorful way Jews can greet each other is with the saying, “?װאָס מאַכט אַ ייִד” (vos makht a yid?). Literally this means, “what does a Jew make?” Idiomatically it means something like, “what’s doing man?”

A cultural event in Poland during World War I marks the beginning of a new era for Yiddish theater.

A Yiddish book suggests a cure-all for anything that ails you.

Lainie Fefferman is a Jewish American composer who grew up in Princeton New Jersey to a “very nerdy Jewish couple.”

Alex Weiser is a Jewish American composer who grew up in New York City.

David Hertzberg is a Jewish American composer, currently living in Los Angeles, the city in which he was raised.

Alyssa Weinberg is a Jewish American composer who grew up in Long Island, New York.

A 1937 list recommends books that every good Yiddish library should have on its shelves.

A scholar uses the history of Jewish conversions to Catholicism  to shed light on ethnic identity in Lithuania before the Holocaust.

A chronicle of Jewish persecutions in Spain translated into Yiddish.