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Diary of a Lonely Girl by Miriam Karpilove
SUNDAY, MARCH 29, 202 3:00-5:00 pm SUBSCRIBE TO YIDDISH SHMOOZERS TO RECEIVE THE ZOOM LINK Miriam Karpilove's novel, Diary of a Lonely Girl portrays a self-supporting, secular Jewish immigrant woman's search for a love match on New York's Lower East Side. The unnamed narrator seeks a modern Jewish man to match her intellect and desires. What she finds, instead, are men--including married men--whose interest lies in sexual conquest masquerading under the left-progressive ban


Tkhines: Listening to the Prayers of 18th-19th Century Ashkenazi Women
Sunday June 29 4:00-6:00 PM Pacific Start Reading: Voices of the Matriarchs , by Chava Weissler (Boston: Beacon Press), Introduction and...


A Master Class in I. L. Peretz's Stories with Goldie Morgentaler
Two Sundays - 5/4/25 and 5/18/25 - 4-6 pm Pacific The Yiddish Shmoozers (In Translation) welcomes back Dr. Goldie Morgentaler! Dr....
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