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Your Guide to Yiddish and In geveb at the 2018 AJS Conference
The Editors
Check out the dozens of panels and presentations involving Yiddish at this year’s Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference.
Dec 03, 2018
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Feminist Dybbuks in Melbourne: Possession, Desire and Voice
Nicola Menser Hearn
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
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Translated and Improved: Yiddish Pop Culture in Israel
Avi Blitz
Yiddish is moving from the outskirts to the center of Israeli pop culture. Avi Blitz asks how that happens.
Nov 26, 2018
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In Edenia, a City of the Future
Yevgeniy Fiks
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
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Weaving in Yiddish: An Interview with Michael Bass and Berit Engen on Yiddish Community and Creativity in Oak Park, IL
Jessica Kirzane
Oct 29, 2018
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לויט די לייענערס | Readers Respond
The Editors
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 Editors
The top ten most popular things we published this year.
Jul 09, 2018
