Yiddish

When the Past Sits at Your Dinner Table: ‘The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook’

When the Past Sits at Your Dinner Table: ‘The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook’

Fania Lewando wrote the first European vegetarian cookbook in Yiddish. Then the Nazis the came.
The Impossibility of Orthodoxy in ‘I Am Forbidden’

The Impossibility of Orthodoxy in ‘I Am Forbidden’

While Anouk Markovits offers clear explanations of Orthodox practices in her novel, I Am Forbidden, her characters aren’t exactly sympathetic.

Sirba Octet/Isabelle Georges: Yiddish Rhapsody

Ben Baruch: Ben Baruch