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Essays, interviews, listicles, podcasts, and much more, covering all aspects of Yiddish culture.
Interview
Weaving in Yiddish: An Interview with Michael Bass and Berit Engen on Yiddish Community and Creativity in Oak Park, IL
Oct 29, 2018
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לויט די לייענערס | Readers Respond
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
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This Year's Reader Favorites
The top ten most popular things we published this year.
Jul 09, 2018
Blog
Speaking of Sutzkever: On Yiddish in Scandinavia
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
Blog
Playlisticle: Yiddish Orality in an Age of Digital Reproduction
A playlisticle of Yiddish speech acts available in digital formats.
Jun 25, 2018
Blog
Milgroym and Rimon, Fraternal Twins
A comparison of the Yiddish journal Milgroym and its Hebrew counterpart Rimon, both published in Berlin in the mid-1920s.
Jun 06, 2018
Blog
Before Birobidzhan
Yevgeniy Fiks visits Birobidzhan, and refuses nostalgia and mourning on his return.
May 07, 2018