Category: Jewish Culture

I am fascinated with the Yiddish typewriter. Finding a Yiddish typewriter is a bit like finding a whale at sea: though not exceedingly rare, you still write home about it. There is very little information on the Yiddish typewriter online as I write this. No Wikipedia article, no anything really, so I figure I will do […]

Latkes, groggers, and braided challah, what could be more Jewish than that? Get ready to have your mind blown. Latkes When I was an exchange student in Germany living with a host family, I was honestly shocked to have latkes served to me one day for dinner. Not only was I served latkes, but they were […]