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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

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

Mar 20, 2019

We’re restoring some Broadway musicals to their intended Yiddish originals.

Mar 20, 2019

Mar 20, 2019

Abstracts are due by May 1, 2019 for a special issue of In geveb devoted to the subject of Yiddish and the Transnational in Latin America.

Feb 28, 2019

Zionism sought to alter forever the image of the Jewish male. Avi Blitz looks at what happened, and how Yiddish fits in.

Feb 19, 2019

You can take the party out of New York, but you can’t take New York out of the party?

Feb 08, 2019

A list of all Yiddish books of poetry published in 2018, sorted alphabetically by the author’s last name, together with my individual idiosyncratic impressions about what this book tells us about Yiddish poetry today.

Jan 31, 2019

Klezmer singers and musicians gather in Berlin to make joyous new sound together.

Jan 29, 2019