From the reverent to the raunchy, YIVO’s vast archives of Yiddish life are reunited online

Click Here to Read:  From the reverent to the raunchy, YIVO’s vast archives of Yiddish life are reunited online by Andrew Silow-Carroll  on the Jewish News of Northern California website on  January 11, 2022. Y
Yiddish Translation of All Quiet on the Western Front.  Image: Shalom Books.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

This Mysterious Ancient Civilization’s DNA Was Not What We Thought it Was

Click Here to Read:  This Mysterious Ancient Civilization’s DNA Was Not What We Thought it Was: The origins of the ancient Etruscans had remained an unsolved mystery hidden in their DNA — until now By Elizabeth Rayne on the SyFy website on November 27, 2021. 

 Etruscan sarcophagus from Cerveteri c. 520 BCE. Terra cotta, length 2 m. Museo Nazionale di Villa Giulia, Rome. Image: Frank Axelsson  Piblic Domain via Wikimedia Commons