Special Issue
Race in America, af yidish
Translations, articles, and reflections focusing on Yiddish perspectives on race in the United States.
Jun 25, 2021
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Selections from Neger-Dikhtung in Amerike (Negro-Poetry in America)
Anita Scott Coleman , Angelina Weld Grimke and Clarissa Scott Delaney
Translation by Robert Magidoff
Edited by Eli Rosenblatt
Eli Rosenblatt introduces three poems by African American women poets of the Harlem Renaissance, translated into Yiddish by Robert Magidoff for the 1936 anthology Neger-Dikhtung in America (Negro-Poetry in America), published in Moscow.
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The Skotsboro Boys in Soviet Minsk
Andrew Sloin
Andrew Sloin guides us through a Soviet Yiddish pamphlet about the Scottsboro trial in the United States to reveal how this incident “became a prism to refract the long history of racial and class domination in the United States and a rallying cry to cultivate the spirit of internationalist socialist solidarity among Soviet readers.”
Jun 25, 2021
Pedagogy
Viver com Yiddish/Lebn far yidish: Song and Story Workshops for Children in a Brazilian School
Sonia Kramer and Aline Silveira
In this piece Sonia Kramer and Aline Silveira describe their work with the Rio-de-Janeiro-based group Viver com Yiddish which runs successful Yiddish language and culture workshops for children.
Jun 21, 2021
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Roundup of Universities Teaching Yiddish Across the World
Sarah Biskowitz and Hannah Mills
In this piece, Sarah Biskowitz and Hannah Mills present the answers to a survey gathering information on Yiddish courses offered at universities across the world.
Jun 14, 2021
Texts & Translation
גאָרנישט
“Gurnisht” Nothing
Zvee Scooler
Translation by Mikhl Yashinsky
Zvee Scooler’s masterpiece on nothing at all.
Jun 11, 2021
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