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- Hear Berele Mesinger talk about his difficult work as a ZAKA volunteer in the search and rescue/recovery of victims following October 7th.
- Meet Nihad Dabit, a prominent painter and sculptor born in Ramle, one of Israel's most mixed cities with significant Jewish and Arab populations, who has worked for coexistence and understanding through the Open House peace and education center there.
- Listen to Vera Szabó as she describes how she and friends in the Yiddish world banded together to aid Probin, a Nepalese student severely injured in the attack, who had just arrived in Israel for an agricultural "learn and earn" program on Kibbutz Alumim, near the Gaza border.
The Autumn-Winter 2023 issue also features a full page of Yiddish terminology related to October 7th and the Israel-Hamas war in order to facilitate reading, writing and discussion in Yiddish on this issue.
Contact: Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath, Board Chair, at gitl@leagueforyiddish.org,
or info@leagueforyiddish.org, for interview requests or more information.
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First published in 1941, Afn Shvel is committed to the promotion and preservation of Yiddish language and culture. It is a membership magazine of the League for Yiddish. The League for Yiddish, Inc., was founded in 1979 by prominent Yiddish linguist and professor Dr. Mordkhe Schaechter to provide organizational support for the modernization, standardization and use of the Yiddish language in all spheres of daily life. With devoted members on six continents, the League for Yiddish is one of the few organizations in today's Yiddish cultural and linguistic world that conducts its activities almost entirely in mame-loshn.
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