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Always Conscious of That Shrivelled Leg!

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on April 5, 2021April 6, 2021

Before World War II, the Yiddish language, though not a national language, was spoken by…

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  • Yiddish

An Unknown Country East of Germany

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on December 6, 2020December 6, 2020

The western boundary of the US State of Mississippi is defined, for the most part,…

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  • Jewish Cemeteries

A Wise and Humble Language

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on December 19, 2018January 21, 2020

Eleven U.S. citizens have won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Bob Dylan won it most…

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  • Kraków

Kraków: The River Speaks Yiddish

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on November 28, 2018December 2, 2020

In the section on Poland in his book A Travel Guide to Jewish Europe, Ben…

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  • Jewish Writers

Poland: Old Things – אַלט זאכן

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on November 14, 2018November 25, 2018

My wife Beth and I live in Be’er Sheva, in the south of Israel. Many…

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