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A man playing a guitar and singing to a close crowd of a dozen or so men and women

American Yiddish Radio

Posted by: Stephanie Hall

Yiddish was the common language of Jews who immigrated to the United States from Eastern Europe. It is a German-based language thought to have developed in the 9th century. While all aspects of Yiddish culture, including literature, theater, film, recording, and journalism, existed in robust and diverse forms wherever Ashkenazi Jews lived, it was in …