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What’s the Difference Between Shlepping and Shluffing?
After you shlep something, you might need to shluf.
What’s the Difference Between a Pisher and an Alter Kaker?
You’re never too young — or too old — to be called something unflattering in Yiddish.
What’s the Difference Between a Klutz and a Putz?
Neither Yiddish type is particularly flattering, but one is definitely worse than the other.
What Is the Difference Between a Shlemiel and a Shlimazel?
Two Yiddish characters explained.
What Does the Word Nebbish Mean?
This classic Yiddish archetype describes a person who is always overlooked.
For Afro-Yiddish Performer, the Past is not Past
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past…” When William Faulkner wrote these words in Requiem for a Nun, I’m pretty certain ...
The Yiddish Author You Never Heard Of, And The Southern Jewish Man Who Will Introduce You To Him
One of my favorite things about my new role as a full-time historian at the ISJL is getting to meet ...
An Ancient Oath Renewed for Labor Day
Often reality is stranger than fiction; The vote for one of the first major strike in American history was taken ...
Feeding Other Writers, and Myself
A few days ago my novel, Fields of Exile , was published in the USA, and this month marks exactly ...