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Essays, interviews, listicles, podcasts, and much more, covering all aspects of Yiddish culture.
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Raisin’ New Voices: An Evening at the Release Party for the New-ish Journal of Jewish Politics, Jewish Raisins
The Editors
Mar 09, 2020
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Briv funem Arkhiv: A Grave in the Baker Street Jewish Cemeteries
Michael Shapiro
Michael Shapiro takes us to the Worker’s Circle section of Boston’s Baker Street Jewish Cemeteries, where he encountered a moving Yiddish poem.
Mar 06, 2020
Interview
Listening to Sylvia’s Children: A response to Briv funem Arkhiv: Letter from Sylvia Schneiderman to Itche Goldberg
Amye Rubinschneider
Amye Rubinschneider interviews her mother and aunt in response to Josie Naron’s blog post about a letter from their mother, Rubinschneider’s grandmother, a teacher fired during the Red Scare.
Mar 03, 2020
Interview
The Promise and Peril of Digital Research in Yiddish: An Interview with Gerben Zaagsma
Elena Hoffenberg
Elena Hoffernberg interviews Gerben Zaagsma about his path to studying Yiddish in the Spanish Civil War; the potency and the frustrations of digital research; and the future of digital studies and Yiddish.
Feb 25, 2020
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Briv funem Arkhiv: The Eiffel Tower Heads to the Suburbs
Nick Underwood
On this 1933 flyer for a Kultur-lige pariz event, a walking, talking Eiffel Tower exclaims, “All of Paris is going to the Kultur-lige’s excursion to Garches, and you want me to stay here?
Feb 21, 2020