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Yiddish writers knew from pogroms. Here's what they can teach us about Tulsa and beyond.


June 3, 2021
1:03 pm
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.(Library of Congress)
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(JTA) My grandpa once told me a story about when my great-grandparents were on a steamship emigrating from Ukraine to Cuba in the 1920s, shortly before my grandpa was born. As the story went, my great-grandmother saw a Black man for the first time and she screamed and hid. 
My grandpa told the story to me only once, when I was probably about 10 years old, but the image of my great-grandmother seeing a Black man and screaming stuck with me.  ....

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Bright Young Collectors: Miriam Borden | Fine Books & Collections


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Where are you from / where do you live? From New Jersey; now living in Toronto.
What did you study at University? I majored in Jewish Studies, with an emphasis on literature and history which led me to my current program, a PhD in Yiddish Studies at the University of Toronto.
Please introduce us to your book collection. What areas do you collect in? I collect Yiddish books, broadly, but I emphasize textbooks, primers, and other educational materials produced for children in the Yiddish school system, from its heyday in the 1920s to its long decline, which reached into the 1970s. Teaching children Yiddish in the 20th century held a special significance. The question of language was paramount for modern Jewish expression and identity. Which was more appropriate: Hebrew, ancient and sacred or Yiddish, modern and diasporic? The Yiddish school system in America was one answer. ....

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