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“Say ‘it hurts’ in Yiddish—and you sense the pain. There’s blood there, it’s warm, it’s alive...”

gonna get niche again but something I love about old/early yiddish studies is when I encounter catalogues for Hebrew texts that have the slightest traces of their vernacular environment: "Old Germ. curs. char...."

in december 2023 health and aid workers in gaza had to create a new acronym WCNSF (wounded child no surviving family). i thought nothing on earth could be more heartbreaking. that was 18 months ago and those children are being starved to death

As we warned, it was always going to be children, the most vulnerable, who die first under total Israeli blockade. First came malnutrition, stunted growth, and lifelong complications that are inevitable when children’s bodies are starved. Now comes death in waves.

هاد لحملة الدكتور محمد الفرا بيساعد فيها حق ادوية وتكاليف عمليات ومستلزمات طبية للمحتاجين لا تقصروا crowdfunder.co.uk/p/pop-up-pharm…

All my homies disfigured psychologically by the events of the last 18 months

whenever a gay guy says he’s an artist it’s like okay well we’ll see about all that

With a fire in my chest and dignity unshaken, I say to you today: we have officially run out of food to ease our hunger. We are being forcibly starved. حسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل

hi @NYCferry ! i’m so happy you provide multilingual signage. but i’m sad to see the Yiddish translation on this sign is written entirely backwards!