Articles

The writer and edu­ca­tor Deb­o­ra Vogel con­tend­ed with ques­tions raised by avant-garde art in the 1920s and 1930s and, through­out her writ­ings, repeat­ed the fol­low­ing ques­tion as a leit­mo­tiv: What does ​“life” mean and which forms does it assume? This arti­cle con­sid­ers how Vogel engaged with these ques­tions about form in var­i­ous essays and in her edu­ca­tion­al work at the Jew­ish orphan­age at Zborows­ka 8 in Lwów.

Oct 26, 2021

This arti­cle describes the para­dox of the neg­a­tive atti­tude artic­u­lat­ed by the Yid­dish Forverts toward using Yid­dish as the edu­ca­tion­al medi­um of instruc­tion in Amer­i­can Jew­ish schools. 

Oct 17, 2022