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Essays, interviews, listicles, podcasts, and much more, covering all aspects of Yiddish culture.
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In eynem’s Communicative Approach to Yiddish Pedagogy: An Interview with Asya Vaisman Schulman
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Briv funem arkhiv: A Memoir in Four Acts: Moyshe Klaynman and Survival at Treblinka
Moyshe Klaynman’s remarkable 1943 manuscript relates his ten-month imprisonment at the Treblinka II extermination camp, his escape during the August 2, 1943 prisoner revolt, and much more. There is only one other known survivor source written so early, and there are no other known Treblinka survivor memoirs available only in the original Yiddish.
May 22, 2020
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The Bund by the Numbers: The Ebbs and Flows of a Jewish Radical Party
The Jewish Labor Bund was a major force in Russian Jewish life, expanding the political arena to be more democratic in nature and driving the creation of a new political and economic discourse in Yiddish. So I was shocked to learn that in 1910, the Bund had a mere 609 members — down from approximately 35,000 five years earlier. The speed with which the Bund and other Jewish political parties in the Russian Empire could rise, fall, and rise again reflects the pressures the community was under, resulting in both sober caution and daring, desperate dreams.
May 06, 2020