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The new ARD mini-series Die Zwei­flers (The Zwei­flers), a Ger­man TV, depicts the involve­ment of four gen­er­a­tions of a Jew­ish fam­i­ly and their involve­ment in the red-light dis­trict in post-Holo­caust Frank­furt, and dis­plays their usage of Yid­dish as it shifts over generations.

Feb 24, 2025

In coun­ter­point to per­va­sive pop­u­lar con­cep­tions of Yid­dish as back­ward-fac­ing or nos­tal­gic, we invite sub­mis­sions to a spe­cial issue of In geveb on ​“Yid­dish Sci­ence Fic­tion” that looks specif­i­cal­ly toward Yid­dish futures that touch on themes of sci­ence or technology.

Feb 19, 2025

Feb 18, 2025

The lat­est install­ment of our annu­al effort to gath­er togeth­er the lat­est publi­ca­tions rel­e­vant to Yid­dish Stud­ies in English.

Feb 13, 2025

A roundup of trans­la­tions pub­lished in 2024.

Feb 11, 2025

I’m par­tic­u­lar­ly encour­aged to see how strong­ly some of our key cura­to­r­i­al deci­sions res­onat­ed with Lar­ry, and I’ll address these and aspects of the broad­er cri­tique point by point.

Jan 31, 2025

Yid­dish: A Glob­al Cul­ture, the new core exhib­it at the Yid­dish Book Cen­ter, is ter­rif­ic: capa­cious, play­ful, valu­ably affirmative.

Jan 31, 2025

Draw­ing from a kalei­do­scop­ic range of sources in his work, Weis­er engages in vibrant dia­logue with voic­es from the past while build­ing inno­v­a­tive son­ic worlds for con­tem­po­rary audiences.

Jan 13, 2025

Though this film square­ly fits into the grow­ing genre of films about the return of Jews to Poland, its engine is char­ac­ter, not history.

Jan 13, 2025

Jan 10, 2025