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Arele Viswanath shares the challenges and innovations of translating Harry Potter into Yiddish.

Feb 16, 2022

Mamaliga’s debut album is an exciting, subtle, and intricate addition to Boston’s klezmer offerings.

Feb 09, 2022

A roundup of translations published in 2021.

Jan 13, 2022

We’re (belatedly) taking a winter publishing break. There’s plenty to read while we’re away.

Dec 24, 2021

Yiddish Chanukah Carols rises above the level of spoof because of its committed engagement with both the original and new materials. Each track so that it settles comfortably between Desser’s new Chanukah lyrics and the recognizable Christmas original.

Dec 24, 2021

As Yiddish and klezmer events moved online over the past two years, some Yiddishists doubted whether they could translate to a screen. But it is structured spaces, not physical encounters, that facilitate opportunities for connection — which I and many others found a way to replicate online.

Dec 23, 2021

The preserved pages of the guest book of Lublin’s renowned yeshiva tell us about the remarkable range of cyclists, Esperantists, local rabbinical students, Catholic seminary students, Hasidic rabbis, and Revisionist Zionists who all came to visit in the 1930s.

Dec 17, 2021

Ned Katz’s sensitive new biography of Eve Adams highglights the challenges faced by LGBTQ people in early 20th-century America and raises lingering questions about the role that Judaism and the Jewish community played in Adams’ life. In response, Noam Sienna asks some questions that perhaps only Adams could answer.

Dec 13, 2021

What brings you to our site, and what keeps you coming back? What do you wish we published more of, and where can we improve? Tell us how we’re doing in our blog and pedagogy sections!

Dec 06, 2021

Kinder-loshn’s mission is to make great classic works of Yiddish children’s literature available to readers in both Yiddish and English and to publish new Yiddish children’s books and translations of other works into Yiddish and English.

Dec 02, 2021