Yiddish

Fania Brantsovsky, last living Vilna ghetto partisan resistance fighter, dies at 102

Remaining in Lithuania after the war, she became a keeper of the flame of the city’s once illustrious Yiddish culture.

By David I. Klein September 23, 2024 6:17 pm

“She was a feisty, brilliant and extraordinary woman,” recalled a colleague.

June 14, 2024 1:35 pm

The Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts tells the story of Yiddish culture as a global, modern movement.

October 1, 2023 6:45 am

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