Blog

From the col­lec­tions of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Capetown, recent­ly dam­aged by fire, an impor­tant doc­u­ment of Bundist his­to­ry and a reminder of the glob­al breadth — and pre­car­i­ty — of Yid­dish archives.

Apr 29, 2021

Mar­garet Froth­ing­ham and Paula Cohen dis­cuss fire trucks, folk­tales, and oth­er con­sid­er­a­tions in Cohen’s illus­tra­tions for this new trea­sury of Yid­dish chil­dren’s stories.

Apr 21, 2021

The phe­nom­e­non of Coro­na songs in the frum world shows us that some­thing quite new is hap­pen­ing with regard to Hasidic music.

Apr 08, 2021

Ayelet Brinn dis­cuss­es Pro­fes­sors Gen­nady Estraikh’s and Mikhail Kru­tikov’s long-run­ning series, Stud­ies in Yid­dish, for Leg­en­da, and the changes they’ve seen in aca­d­e­m­ic pub­lish­ing and Yid­dish stud­ies over the course of the past twen­ty years.

Mar 23, 2021

Bak­er explores the career of Abra­ham S. Frei­dus, a reclu­sive, pio­neer­ing, and Yid­dish-the­ater-lov­ing Judaica librar­i­an. His research reveals the tight nexus that exist­ed a cen­tu­ry ago between a small coterie of East­ern Euro­pean-born Judaica librar­i­ans in the Unit­ed States; their phil­an­thropic patrons of Cen­tral Euro­pean back­ground; and the large­ly male, Yid­dish-speak­ing read­ers who fre­quent­ed the impor­tant Jew­ish libraries of that era. 

Mar 07, 2021

On Wednes­day, Feb­ru­ary 26, Pres­i­dent Joseph R. Biden announced in a press brief­ing that he will be host­ing Asch Wednes­day 2022 at the White House.

Feb 25, 2021

Feb 23, 2021

Tech­nol­o­gy glitch­es and COVID-era dif­fi­cul­ties are oppor­tu­ni­ties to be cre­ative and think on our toes.

Feb 22, 2021

Feb 21, 2021

An inno­v­a­tive series of authen­tic real-world speak­ing and writ­ing prompts for stu­dents fin­ish­ing their first semes­ter of Yiddish.

Feb 17, 2021