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In August 2018, Australian theatre maker and director Samara Hersch, along with Chamber Made, a company operating at the ‘nexus of contemporary performance, music and sound’, presented Dybbuks – a production in three acts exploring ideas of possession; of women being with the dead; of desire, ritual, and voice. Here, Nicola Menser Hearn reviews the production and discusses it with Hersch.

Nov 30, 2018

Yiddish is moving from the outskirts to the center of Israeli pop culture. Avi Blitz asks how that happens.

Nov 26, 2018

Yevgeniy Fiks and Larissa Babji invited artists to engage with Kalman Zingman’s 1918 Yiddish-language utopian novella In der tsukunft-shtot edenia (In Edenia, a City of the Future), published in Kharkiv, Ukraine. They displayed the results in an exhibition at Yermilov Center in Kharkiv, Ukraine in June 2017. Here they discuss the novel, the process that led to the exhibition, and the political and social realities that their project sought to address.

Nov 01, 2018

Oct 29, 2018

This summer we conducted a survey of our readers to find out how you think we’re doing, here’s what we learned.

Oct 01, 2018

Sep 06, 2018

Sep 03, 2018

The top ten most popular things we published this year.

Jul 09, 2018

Calling all readers! We want to hear what you think.

Jul 05, 2018

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