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A librarian discovers that Isaac Bashevis Singer’s fans wrote letters as compelling as the novels they loved.

Jun 14, 2016

Ashkenaz, the undiscovered country, lies just north of nowhere and a little west of wherever we want it to be.

Jun 07, 2016

Zohar Weiman-Kelman on the intersections of Yiddish, translation, and the erotic.

Jun 01, 2016

Gennady Estraikh speaks with Managing Editor Sarah Ellen Zarrow about the groundbreaking project “A Comprehensive History of the Jews of the Soviet Union,” a seven-year initiative led by researchers in NYU’s Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies.

May 26, 2016

A bibliography of scholarly works in Yiddish Studies published in French over the last two years.

May 16, 2016

Professor Anita Norich concludes our series of reflections on Translating Yiddish in the twenty-first century by reconsidering our relationship to ambiguity in translation.

May 12, 2016

In geveb’s Managing Editor for Translations reflects on the need and possibilities for translating the archives of Yiddish culture, in addition to the greats of its literature.

May 10, 2016

Zackary Sholem Berger reflects upon the roundtable discussion at AJS last December that inspired this series, and on his own motivations as a translator from Yiddish and a writer in English and Yiddish.

May 08, 2016

In the second essay in our series of reflections on translating Yiddish in the twenty-first century, Sarah Ponichtera thinks about how we can bring a sense of materiality to our translations.

May 04, 2016

Chief Editor Saul Noam Zaritt introduces our series of essays reflecting on the state of Yiddish translation.

May 01, 2016