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Essays, interviews, listicles, podcasts, and much more, covering all aspects of Yiddish culture.

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An Idiosyncratic Round-Up of Yiddish Poetry in 2018

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.

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The Lonely Hero Needs Reanimating: Poems by Yisroel Nekrasov | רעאַנימאַטאָרן קענען אַלץ: לידער פֿון ישׂראל נעקראַסאָוו

A new book of con­tem­po­rary Yid­dish poet­ry from the Russ­ian writer Yis­roel Nekrasov con­sid­ers mur­der, rean­i­ma­tion, the geog­ra­phy of time, and the long work of mourning. 

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