Interview
Communicating Jewish History in Poland Today
Madeleine Cohen
POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews was decades in the making and now tells the thousand year history of Polish Jews in the old heart of Jewish Warsaw.
Jan 16, 2019
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לעצטע מעשׂים־טובֿים פֿון אַ טאָמײטע
A Tomato’s Last Good Deeds
Getsl Selikovitch
Translation by Michael Shapiro
If you thought Shloyme Gilbert’s “Monologue of a Dog” was strange, wait until you read Getsl Selikovitsh’s tomato monologue.
Nov 21, 2018
Blog
Introducing Jonah Lubin, Editorial Intern
Jonah Lubin
Introducing the newest member of our editorial staff!
Jan 20, 2019
Pedagogy
Yiddish in ale lender! Yiddish Summer Programs Roundup 2019
Miranda Cooper
Looking to improve your Yiddish this summer? There are options all over the world, from traditional classroom-based programs to music festivals, and everything in between—and we’ve done the research so you don’t have to.
Jan 20, 2019
Pedagogy
Online Yiddish Language Instruction: A Conversation
The Editors
A conversation between language instructors who teach and think about online courses, answering a series of questions that we posed in order to reflect on the state of online Yiddish language learning.
Dec 12, 2018
Blog
When the Stakes Were High and the Odds Were Low: On seeking publication and combing the archive
Shoshana Olidort
On taking revenge against negligent editors in the archive.
Dec 05, 2018
Blog
Feminist Dybbuks in Melbourne: Possession, Desire and Voice
Nicola Menser Hearn
In August 2018, Australian theatre maker and director Samara Hersch, along with Chamber Made, a company operating at the ‘nexus of contemporary performance, music and sound’, presented Dybbuks – a production in three acts exploring ideas of possession; of women being with the dead; of desire, ritual, and voice. Here, Nicola Menser Hearn reviews the production and discusses it with Hersch.
Nov 30, 2018
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