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Essays, interviews, listicles, podcasts, and much more, covering all aspects of Yiddish culture.
Interview
Yiddish Linguistics and Digital Humanities: A Conversation with Michelle Chesner about the Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazi Jewry
Feb 12, 2018
Blog
Avant-garde Journals in geveb: A Manifesto for Yiddish Cybernetics, Part 1
Announcing a hybrid avant-garde academic project linking the early 20th century with the early 21st.
Feb 06, 2018
Blog
Milgroym's Cultural Context
Weimar Berlin, Yiddish art journals, editorial conflicts—Naomi Brenner explains the cultural context of the journal Milgroym.
Feb 06, 2018
Blog
"They Have Their Own Language, Literally": A Review of One of Us
Shayna Weiss reviews One of Us, a Netfix documentary directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady that follows the lives of three ex-Hasidim.
Jan 05, 2018
Blog
Where Text Meets Sweat: Reading Yiddish Utopia in the Utah Landscape
Erin Faigin asks utopian questions in Clarion, Utah, the site of a former Yiddish agricultural colony.
Dec 27, 2017
Blog
A Jewish Folk Poet in Texas: Chaya Rochel Andres and the Yiddish South
Writing Yiddish poems and resisting assimilation in the Dallas Arbeter Ring
Dec 13, 2017
Blog
Your Guide to Yiddish and In geveb at the 2017 AJS Conference
Check out the dozens of panels and presentations involving Yiddish at this year’s AJS.
Dec 11, 2017
Interview
Seeking and Queering Utopia: A Chat About the Steiner Summer Yiddish Program
Queerness, religion, and the other in the Yiddish Book Center’s Steiner Summer Yiddish Program
Nov 24, 2017
Blog
Recreation as Education: Yiddish Vokh 2017
Sandra Fox on returning to summer camp at the Yidish Vokh, a week-long Yiddish language retreat for all ages.
Oct 31, 2017
Blog
Making Sense of Squiggles: Teaching and Learning Yiddish Stenography
The invisible labor, and liberation, of a shorthand for Yiddish.
Oct 20, 2017