Articles

In this peer-reviewed article, David Roskies explores Peretz’s fondness for dialogue to discover the sound chamber of Polish Jewry.

May 22, 2016

In this peer-reviewed article, Adi Mahalel follows Peretz’s search, through new literary styles, for new forms of revolutionary politics.

May 22, 2016

What is Yiddish science and what does it have to say about the postmodern?

Mar 13, 2016

An introduction to the writings by Hillel Zeitlin on the intentional, neo-Hasidic community he tried to create in Warsaw in the 1920s.

Mar 08, 2016

What is the future of Yiddish scholarship? An argument for the potential innovative role for Yiddish studies within the humanities in general.

Dec 07, 2015

Mikhail Krutikov calls for the revival the intellectual relations, coordination, and exchange between the different corners of Yiddish Studies.

Dec 06, 2015

Jacob Steinberg’s poetry between Hebrew and Yiddish, between mourning and melancholy.

Sep 24, 2015

Is there Yiddish photography? Can non-linguistic things be Yiddish? Yiddish photography (or culture in general) might emerge not in any work of art, but in the people who produced it, read it, viewed it, bought it, sold it, and exhibited it.

Sep 01, 2015

Was Yiddish literature of the early modern period an outlet for the voices of women, or did it participate in their suppression, like the iron tongue of the Rothenburg Schandmaske?

Aug 30, 2015

Was there a definable style of Yiddish writing produced in the American West? It is time to look beyond New York and examine the unique experiences of Jews on the Pacific Coast and the literary culture they produced.

Aug 26, 2015