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Gevalt! - Yiddish still lives
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Jerusalem Post
02-01-2002
Headline: Gevalt! - Yiddish still lives
Byline: Amanda Borschel
Edition; Daily
Section: Books
Page: 13
Friday, February 1, 2002 -- Yiddish: A Nation of Words by Miriam Weinstein. Steerforth Press. 320 pages. $26
'In Jewish history, the road between being sick and dying is a very long one," said Nobel prize-winning Yiddish author Isaac Bashevis Singer. In this new popular history of Yiddish,journalist Miriam We...
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