This account of Yiddish-speaking farmers offers a model for engaging with oral history and the memory of communities that have since disappeared.
Reading Peretz as a political thinker, Adi Mahalel offers a case for writing socialism into the center of the rise of modern Yiddish literature.
The three decades of the Algemeyne Entsiklopedye trace the fate of Yiddish diaspora nationalism before and after the Second World War and the genocide of Europe’s Jews.
Lea Schäfer demonstrates what can be learned about variations in pre-Holocaust Yiddish from the materials of the Language and Cultural Archive of Ashkenazic Jewry.
Amy Simon deploys empathic reading to interpret the range of emotions contained in Yiddish diaries written in the ghettos of Warsaw, Lodz, and Vilna.