June/July 2017
‘Start-up nation’ meets Shavuot
The story of Israel's efficient, high-tech dairy industry
- Tidbits: A publishing firm for Jewish writers excluded by mainstream publishersTidbits is a Forverts feature of easy news briefs in Yiddish that you can listen to or read, or both! If you read the article and don’t know a word, just click on it and the translation appears. Listen to the report here: אין ניו־יאָרק איז די וואָך געגרינדט געוואָרן אַ פֿאַרלאַג פֿאַר ייִדישע און... […]
- In ‘Fatherland,’ Thomas Mann finds a Germany dividedSpeaking at the Library of Congress, just before the end of World War II, Thomas Mann insisted “that there are not two Germanies, a bad and a good one, but only one whose best qualities were perverted by devilish cunning into evil.” Two years later, in 1947, he would publish Doctor Faustus, a meditation on... […]