Paul Berger is a staff writer at The Forward. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The (London) Times, The Daily and Guardian.co.uk.

Nov
24

Language is Like a River

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“You can’t put your arms around it.”

Jewish butchers in Odessa, Ukraine, talk about the decline of Yiddish and how the city has changed. From the trailer to Odessa Motives, a documentary by an acquaintance of mine, Dmitriy Khavin, showing as part of a Jewish Documentary Series at the Anthology Film Archives on Wednesday.

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