SUNDAY, AUG 9, 2026, 10am-Noon PDT A handbook of Yiddish phrases and usages you won't get in your Yiddish language class, written with the spicy humor, incisive wit and inside knowledge of a Yeshiva-trained badkhen (wedding entertainer). But there's more! While kvetching (complaining) is a mood woven deeply into the Yiddish language, Wex is really about capturing the lived experience of yidishkayt--Jewishness--from an Ashkenazi perspective. It's an exercise in essentialism

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Sunday May 17, 2026 3-5 pm Pacific With Special Guests: Translators Ellen Cassedy and Yermiyahu Ahron Taub The newly translated Yiddish women writers like Blume Lempel were not born yesterday. Like Lempel, most emigrated as young women from Eastern Europe, settling in North America's urban centers after the turn of the 20th century. Many of these Yiddish women writers are now being translated and published in English, in what appears to be a renaissance of interest. This