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Milgroym's Cultural Context
Naomi Brenner
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
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
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Where Text Meets Sweat: Reading Yiddish Utopia in the Utah Landscape
Erin Faigin
Erin Faigin asks utopian questions in Clarion, Utah, the site of a former Yiddish agricultural colony.
Dec 27, 2017
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A Jewish Folk Poet in Texas: Chaya Rochel Andres and the Yiddish South
Josh Parshall
Writing Yiddish poems and resisting assimilation in the Dallas Arbeter Ring
Dec 13, 2017
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Your Guide to Yiddish and In geveb at the 2017 AJS Conference
The Editors
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
Noam Green and Tova Benjamin
Queerness, religion, and the other in the Yiddish Book Center’s Steiner Summer Yiddish Program
Nov 24, 2017
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Recreation as Education: Yiddish Vokh 2017
Sandra Fox
Sandra Fox on returning to summer camp at the Yidish Vokh, a week-long Yiddish language retreat for all ages.
Oct 31, 2017
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Making Sense of Squiggles: Teaching and Learning Yiddish Stenography
Elena Hoffenberg
The invisible labor, and liberation, of a shorthand for Yiddish.
Oct 20, 2017
Blog
Queering Broadway: Indecent and Lesbian Yiddish Love
C Tova Markenson
Onstage, intimacy that’s untranslatable.
Sep 26, 2017
Interview
Remedy Before the Sickness: Eli Rosen on Translating Rhinoceros into Yiddish
Tova Benjamin
Tova Benjamin talks with Eli Rosen, translator of Rhinoceros, about fascism, Talmudic tractates, Yiddish fluency, and going OTD.
Sep 20, 2017