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Translating the Holocaust
Jonah S. Boyarin
Jonah Boyarin explores the process of his translation of Mordkhe Wolfshaut-Dinkes’s holocaust memoir, Checkmate: The Miracle of My Life.
May 14, 2019
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The Tsene-rene: In Search of a Seventeenth-Century Yiddish Bible in Modern-Day Jerusalem
Avi Blitz
Avi Blitz discusses the popularity and gender-inflected attitude toward the Tsene-rene in Haredi communities in contemporary Israel.
May 06, 2019
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Yale Strom's Striking Vision: A Review of Shimmering Lights for All Seasons
Zeke Levine
Shimmering Lights by Yale Strom’s Broken Consort is joyful listening that cuts through the darkness at any time of year.
Apr 24, 2019
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Another 'Tradition Omission': Reconsidering Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish
Shaina Hammerman
Fiddler’s Yiddish translation merits discussion in The New York Times, not as history or metaphor, but as a window into how Jews tell stories about themselves.
Apr 15, 2019
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“They were unique. They knew it.”: An Interview with Paul Buhle on Field Work, Poetry and the History of the American Left
Diana Clarke
Apr 13, 2019
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A Tale of Two Translators: Yehoash and Alter Take on the Tanakh
Jeffrey Shandler
The recent publication of Robert Alter’s long-awaited complete translation of the entire Hebrew Bible into English is a en enormous achievement. But Alter is not the first to tackle this monumental project; almost a century earlier, Solomon Bloomgarten—better known by his pen name, Yehoash—produced a landmark translation of the same text into Yiddish.
Apr 05, 2019
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The Scholar and the Bookmaker: On Encountering the Material Side of Things
Barbara Mann
Mann discusses the knowledge she gained through a hands-on encounter with the materials of print while creating her artist’s book “Things/Zachen/Devarim.”
Mar 27, 2019
