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Dr. Irene Aue-Ben-David: Preserving the history of German Jewry - interview

Jerusalemite of the Week: A conversation with Leo Baeck Institute director Dr. Irene Aue-Ben-David on preserving German Jewish history.

|ByAARON REICH
Irene Aue-Ben-David
A three-year-old haredi child found on his own at a bus terminal at the Kalandiya West Bank crossing, December 15, 2025

Ultra-Orthodox child forgotten on bus and left alone at West Bank checkpoint, police probe parents

The child's parents, a haredi couple residing in Modi'in Ilit, were located on Monday morning and subsequently taken into questioning by police officers.

|ByEFRAT FORSHER, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Jacob and Rachel by William Dyce (1853)

Leah, and the inner truth we need in an age of illusion - opinion

Leah’s legacy reminds us that renewal after October 7 will emerge from depth, resilience, and the quiet work of rebuilding from within.

|ByZEHAVIT GROSS
Saul Rubinek plays a version of himself in "Playing Shylock," about an actor whose dream to play Shakespeare's controversial Jewish character is thwarted by timid producers.

Saul Rubinek’s new one-man show asks, is there ever a right time to play Shylock? 

“Playing Shylock,” opening in Brooklyn, imagines the cancellation of Shakespeare’s controversial play about the humiliation of a Jewish moneylender.

|ByANDREW SILOW-CARROLL/JTA

Ruth Wisse on the miracle of modern Jewish history

The iconic Yiddish literature expert talks about her latest translation, her upcoming memoir, and the enduring success of Yiddish literature.

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021BySARAH BEN-NUN
A YOUNG Polish Jew reads from a book in Yiddish, in the Jewish library at the Jewish Community Center (JCC) in Krakow.

Jewish South African history and legacy explored in new documentary

A new documentary Johanessburg-based producer Mark Wade 'Legends & Legacies: A Story of a Community' examines South African Jews' trials, tribulations and triumps.

JULY 27, 2021BySTEVE LINDE
The TV series on the history of South African Jews launched on July 11.

Legends & Legacies: Exploring the history of South African Jews on TV

The television series launched on July 11, 2021 as an online charity premiere for the Union of Jewish Women, which my late mother, Roseve (Saacks) Linde, once headed.

JULY 15, 2021BySTEVE LINDE
The TV series on the history of South African Jews launched on July 11.

Isabel Frey, the Jewish Viennese musician who thrives on Yiddish

Frey is not only here to perform for a live audience, she is also taking an intensive Yiddish course at the University of Tel Aviv.

JULY 7, 2021ByBARRY DAVIS
ISABEL FREY: I discovered Yiddish, and the culture, more through my own past.

Yiddish writers knew from pogroms. Here’s what they can teach about Tulsa

How Yiddish writing viewed matters of race in America.

JUNE 4, 2021ByJESSICA KIRZANE
A contemporary photograph shows the ruins of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Okla., after a white mob and local law enforcement attacked and killed hundreds of the neighborhood's Black residents, June 1921.

Alternate History: Zion by the shores of Alaska

While the stories in Alternate History are conjectural, they may have some basis in fact and this is the case in The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, a 2007 novel by Michael Chabon.

MAY 25, 2021ByJACOB SIVAK
President Chaim Weizmann with Nahum Goldman at the Weizmann residence in Rehovot in 1951

Isabel Frey is a 26-year-old Yiddish singer and Austrian politician

Frey, 26, grew up in Vienna’s 6th District, near the city’s center, and was part of the socialist Hashomer Hatzair Zionist youth movement.

APRIL 22, 2021ByJOE BAUR/JTA
Isabel Frey's music became a hit at demonstrations against Austria's conservative ruling parties.

Destinations for a Jewish traveler: The Yiddish Book Center in Amherst

The center has collected more than 1.5 million books covering a substantial number of the 45,000 Yiddish works that were published between 1864 and 1939

APRIL 20, 2021ByWALTER BINGHAM
The Yiddish Book Center is located on the campus of Hampshire College

Grapevine, April 10, 2021: Pure Gold(a)

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

APRIL 10, 2021ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
DOCTORS, NURSES and support staff at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York who participated in the six million steps campaign.

Yale to offer beginner Yiddish courses to fulfill language requirements

The beginner courses, which will start in the fall, will likely develop into levels of increasingly advanced courses in Yiddish as a spoken and written language.

APRIL 7, 2021BySHIRA HANAU/JTA
Yale University