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Opera about a unique Yiddish dictionary to have its world premiere

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The Jewish Exponent

At YIVO, an Unfinished Yiddish Dictionary Gets the Last Word — as Opera

In the hallways of New York’s YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the story was told as a punchline: the great Yiddish dictionary project that took 25 years and never got beyond the first letter of ...
The New York Times

The Dueling Scholars Who Bickered a Yiddish Dictionary Into Existence

The Jewish tradition of debate is at the center of a new chamber opera about two scholars clashing over a Yiddish dictionary in the aftermath of World War II. By Rob Tannenbaum Arguments, on topics ...
The Forward

Opera about a unique Yiddish dictionary to have its world premiere

It’s not every day, even in New York City, that Yiddish enthusiasts can see a live, fully-staged performance of an opera about Yiddish. “Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language” set design by Michael ...