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Essays and peer-reviewed scholarship in Yiddish Studies, an interdisciplinary field that engages all aspects of Yiddish cultural production, especially in its relationship to other cultures and languages.

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Molded Inexorably by the Times: Rachel Wischnitzer’s and Franzisca Baruch’s Collaboration on the Headlines of Rimon/Milgroym

Mishory exam­ines the col­lab­o­ra­tive work of art his­to­ri­an Rachel Wis­chnitzer (18851989), and Jew­ish-Ger­man design­er and typog­ra­ph­er Franzis­ca Baruch (19011989), demon­strat­ing that Baruch’s revival of medieval Hebrew let­ter­forms in her work on Rimon/​Milgroym and her use of frag­men­ta­tion as a strat­e­gy for visu­al, tex­tu­al, and cul­tur­al revival was in con­ver­sa­tion with Wischnitzer’s scholarship. 

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Translation, Cosmopolitanism and the Resilience of Yiddish: Wischnitzer’s Milgroym as a Pathway Towards the Global Museum

Read­ing Rachel Wis­chnitzer’s edi­to­r­i­al vision for the jour­nal Mil­groym as a glob­al museum.” 

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