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  • This has been most visible in the United States in its Ashkenazi forms: klezmer bands now fill major venues and "Jewish music" has become a profitable and over-marketed sub-genre; the periodic human-interest headline has switched from "Yiddish is Dying!" to "Yiddish Revives!" as interest and class enrollment swells; the flagship yiddishist arts retreat, Living Traditions 'annual KlezKamp, will turn twenty-five in 2009.

    Palestine Blogs aggregator 2009

  • This has been most visible in the United States in its Ashkenazi forms: klezmer bands now fill major venues and "Jewish music" has become a profitable and over-marketed sub-genre; the periodic human-interest headline has switched from "Yiddish is Dying!" to "Yiddish Revives!" as interest and class enrollment swells; the flagship yiddishist arts retreat, Living Traditions 'annual KlezKamp, will turn twenty-five in 2009.

    Window Into Palestine 2009

  • Zabludowsky “chose to become more involved in working as a teacher than in the school’s politics,” but finally she decided to make common cause with the group that would leave to create a new school: Naye Yidisher Shule, which from the beginning was conceived as small, apolitical and profoundly yiddishist.

    Vele Rabinowitz Zabludowsky. 2009

  • All new shirts in The Jewschool Sto’ for the secular yiddishist and/or orthodox anarchist in all of us.

    Jewschool Tees for the Red Diaper Jew | Jewschool 2004

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