Yiddish is a language once spoken by 11 million people all over the world. While it has a lot of overlap with German and Hebrew in its vocabulary, it has its own grammatical system and linguistic overlaps with Polish, Russian, and other languages. Some institutions working to teach Yiddish, preserve historic Yiddishkeit and foster new Yiddish culture are YIVO, the Yiddish Book Center, and the Worker's Circle.

Little Boxes is a song written by Malvina Reynolds. Here's Pete Seeger singing it. 

The speech about Forest Hills is from an archival recording of a protest I found via this episode of the podcast School Colors: "The Battle of Forest Hills."

This "battle" was a very public example of a primarily Ashkenazi Jewish community fighting to keep low-income housing out of their neighborhood,  contributing to housing segregation.

Rhonda Lieberman wrote this satirical fashion article about "The Other American Princess" in Artforum's March 1995 issue.

Yiddish dance is a modern term for a variety of folk forms danced to klezmer music (another modern term) which come primarily from Eastern European/ Ashkenazi Jewish communities. You can dance in a line, circle, with a partner, or solo. Here's a link to Helen Winkler's website on Yiddish dance.

Der Giftpilz (The Poisonous Mushroom) was a children's book written by Ernst Hiemer. A piece of Nazi propaganda, the book was intended to teach children how to identify a Jew the same way they would a poisonous mushroom. This book is one of many historic and modern works that trumpet overtly antisemitic images and tropes about Jews.

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Zi Zingt in a Shney is a lid (or poem) written by Rajzel Zychlinski and published in 1969. 

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"East Side Street Vendors" was an article published in the New York Times on July 30th 1893. I found the article excerpted in Karen Brodkin's book How Jews Became White Folks

Massive thanks to Philly Typewriter for loaning this period-accurate working typewriter for this scene.

Little Mary Phagan was a country song written by Fiddlin' John Carson and sung by his daughter, Rosa Lee. The song gives a falsified account of the murder of Mary Phagan, painting Jewish factory manager Leo Frank as the murderer. Frank was convicted in a trial that has since been discredited by many legal scholars. When his death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, he was broken out of jail by the KKK and lynched. You can read more about Leo Frank here.