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Jul 09, 2018
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משיח אין אַמעריקע
Messiah in America
Moyshe Nadir
Translation by Michael Shapiro
An exclusive extract from Moyshe Nadir’s 1932 satire, Messiah in America.
Jul 04, 2018
Blog
Speaking of Sutzkever: On Yiddish in Scandinavia
Jan Schwarz
New research and translation of Avrom Sutzkever’s work leads to a multilingual, multinational convening of Yiddishists in Copenhagen, Denmark and in Lund, Sweden.
Jun 28, 2018
Blog
Playlisticle: Yiddish Orality in an Age of Digital Reproduction
David G. Roskies
A playlisticle of Yiddish speech acts available in digital formats.
Jun 25, 2018
Blog
Milgroym and Rimon, Fraternal Twins
Naomi Brenner
A comparison of the Yiddish journal Milgroym and its Hebrew counterpart Rimon, both published in Berlin in the mid-1920s.
Jun 06, 2018
Text & Translation
ברוך דיין אמת
Blessed is the True Judge
Leon Kobrin
Translation by Jessica Kirzane
A short story from Leon Kobrin’s 1903 collection Geto dramen.
May 30, 2018
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