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I’m par­tic­u­lar­ly encour­aged to see how strong­ly some of our key cura­to­r­i­al deci­sions res­onat­ed with Lar­ry, and I’ll address these and aspects of the broad­er cri­tique point by point.

Jan 31, 2025

Yid­dish: A Glob­al Cul­ture, the new core exhib­it at the Yid­dish Book Cen­ter, is ter­rif­ic: capa­cious, play­ful, valu­ably affirmative.

Jan 31, 2025

Draw­ing from a kalei­do­scop­ic range of sources in his work, Weis­er engages in vibrant dia­logue with voic­es from the past while build­ing inno­v­a­tive son­ic worlds for con­tem­po­rary audiences.

Jan 13, 2025

Though this film square­ly fits into the grow­ing genre of films about the return of Jews to Poland, its engine is char­ac­ter, not history.

Jan 13, 2025

Jan 10, 2025

A con­ver­sa­tion with Eliz­a­beth Schwartz, author of The Sweet Fra­grance of Life and Oth­er Hor­ror Sto­ries, on inter­act­ing with the hor­ror genre as a Jew­ish woman.

Dec 19, 2024

Mari­posas Galác­ti­cas [Galac­tic But­ter­flies] is an eight-piece band from Philadel­phia that per­forms a fusion of kumbia [folk music from Latin Amer­i­ca], punk, and klezmer music.

Dec 10, 2024

This essay about Yid­dish-speak­ing artist Nathan Alt­man, writ­ten in French by Dr. Pas­cale Samuel, is from the cat­a­logue accom­pa­ny­ing the exhi­bi­tion ​“The Dyb­buk: Phan­tom of a Lost World,” on view at Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme [Muse­um of the Art and His­to­ry of Judaism] (mahJ) in Paris through Jan­u­ary 26, 2025. 

Dec 05, 2024

Wel­come to the newest mem­ber of our team!

Dec 03, 2024

Tama­ra Glea­son Fried­berg sat down with Sonia Gol­lance in Sum­mer 2024 to dis­cuss Yid­dish the­ater in Lon­don, her trans­la­tion of Tea Arciszewska’s Miryeml, and what comes next.

Nov 26, 2024