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    A Tale of Two Totafot

    On the mysterious and much debated origins of a seminal biblical term

    byStanley Dubinsky and Hesh Epstein
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    A Goy, a Yid: What’s in a Name?

    How did one Biblical tribe come to give all Jews their name? And just who are the goyim? A guide for the perplexed.

    byAvi Shafran
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    The Wall Street Journal Needs a Linguistics Lesson

    Hundred percent, as the Orthodox say

    byMark Oppenheimer
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    The Mystery of the Origins of Yiddish Will Never Be Solved

    How an academic field—marked by petty fighting, misguided ideological debates, and personal proximity to tragedy—doomed itself

    byBatya Ungar-Sargon
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    Where Did Yiddish Come From?

    An explosive debate erupts from footnotes suggesting that Ashkenazi Jews are Europeans

    byCherie Woodworth
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    Examining Edenics, the Theory That English (and Every Other Language) Came From Hebrew

    An eccentric Jerusalem-based researcher believes he’s found the key to the origin of tongues—in the Bible

    byHezy Laing
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    The Napkin Artist

    Remembering Yiddishist, linguistics scholar, Holocaust survivor, and painter Edward Stankiewicz, who died this year

    byFrances Brent
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    Slips of the Tongue

    What the use of Yiddish phrases can tell us about contemporary American Jewry

    byAri M. Brostoff
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    Tongue Tied

    The romantic, bumpy road to learning a new language

    byLynn Harris
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    Chaos Theory

    Giving lessons in Hebrew nuance to a bunch of suits from Hollywood

    byUnknown Author
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