NYT: Jewish Identity, Spelled in Yiddish
Modern Yiddish transliteration was created by early-20th-century scholars who saw Judaism as a nationality based on language and were fighting rising anti-Semitism.
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By Andrey Filimonov
Audio recording: Public Service Announcements urging support for Soviet Jewry by Rita Moreno, Bayard Rustin, Sam Levenson and Alan King, recently digitized at the Center for Jewish History. Link to digital audio file: http://digital.cjh.org/4552838
Originally found on an open-reel tape, in the Records of National Conference on Soviet Jewry, I-181A, Box 369, Tape number M15.
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Ketubbah (marriage contract) from Persia, 1840s. Yeshiva University Museum.
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Purim celebration at the Juedische Schule Soest. circa 1929. Leo Baeck Institute.
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