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Essays, interviews, listicles, podcasts, and much more, covering all aspects of Yiddish culture.
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Speaking of Sutzkever: On Yiddish in Scandinavia
Jan Schwarz
New research and translation of Avrom Sutzkever’s work leads to a multilingual, multinational convening of Yiddishists in Copenhagen, Denmark and in Lund, Sweden.
Jun 28, 2018
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Playlisticle: Yiddish Orality in an Age of Digital Reproduction
David G. Roskies
A playlisticle of Yiddish speech acts available in digital formats.
Jun 25, 2018
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Milgroym and Rimon, Fraternal Twins
Naomi Brenner
A comparison of the Yiddish journal Milgroym and its Hebrew counterpart Rimon, both published in Berlin in the mid-1920s.
Jun 06, 2018
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Before Birobidzhan
Yevgeniy Fiks
Yevgeniy Fiks visits Birobidzhan, and refuses nostalgia and mourning on his return.
May 07, 2018
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Diocese of Birobidzhan
Yevgeniy Fiks
Yevgeniy Fiks looks at Birobidzhan’s (Christian) present.
May 07, 2018
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Seizing the Means of Cultural Production: Hasidic Representation in Contemporary Yiddish Media
Rose Waldman
Literary production in Yiddish is booming, but because most of it is coming from Hasidic communities, scholars often overlook it.
Apr 27, 2018
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The Latest in Yiddish Studies in English: 2017
Rachelle Grossman, Erin Faigin, Saul Noam Zaritt and Jessica Kirzane
A bibliography of the output of Yiddish scholarship published in English last year.
Apr 23, 2018
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Yiddish Moves
Richard J. Fein
Not a translation! An original English-language Yiddish poem.
Apr 18, 2018
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Long Lunches at Cafe Jerusalem
Guy Tabachnick and Emma Claire Foley
A delicious dispatch from the outskirts of Lviv.
Mar 29, 2018