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  • Chapter drawing from a 1938 New York edition of Jacob Glatstein’s 'Ven Yash iz geforn'.
    Chapter drawing from a 1938 New York edition of Jacob Glatstein’s 'Ven Yash iz geforn'.
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    The Magic Mountain of Yiddish

    Jacob Glatstein’s 1930s Yiddish novel ‘Homecoming at Twilight’ foresaw the coming doom

    byDara Horn
  • (La caverne aux livres by gadl / Alexandre Duret-Lutz; some rights reserved.)
    (La caverne aux livres by gadl / Alexandre Duret-Lutz; some rights reserved.)
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    On the Bookshelf

    Books that instruct, books that edify

    byJosh Lambert
  • Still from a film featured in "16 mm Postcards: Home Movies of American Jewish Visitors to 1930s Poland," on view at Yeshiva University Museum, August 2010–January 2011.(Courtesy Center for Jewish History)
    Still from a film featured in "16 mm Postcards: Home Movies of American Jewish Visitors to 1930s Poland," on view at Yeshiva University Museum, August 2010–January 2011.(Courtesy Center for Jewish History)
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    Homecomings

    A museum exhibition and a new translation from the Yiddish examine ‘heritage travel’ in the 1930s

    byAdam Kirsch
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