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Briv funem Arkhiv: A Masquerade Ball in Warsaw, 1925
Alyssa Quint
For our first briv funem arkhiv, Alyssa Quint shares a Halloween-themed find: a pamphlet for a 1925 masquerade ball in Warsaw.
Oct 31, 2019
Blog
“Tear Up The Harsh Decrees”: Reflections on Tkhines for the High Holidays
Eve Romm
Eve Romm looks to tkhines — Yiddish women’s devotional literature — for High Holidays prayers that “feel earnest, tender, and richly human.”
Oct 17, 2019
Interview
Memorializing the Holocaust in Electronic Music: An Interview with Francisco Dean
Jo Sabath
Jo Sabath talks with Francisco Dean about Dean’s Frilingdik Umbazigt: As the Spring Unconquered, an electronic music piece memorializing the Holocaust that he composed and directed with high school student musicians at the Chicago Laboratory School.
Oct 17, 2019
Blog
Jewish Victims, Jewish Virtue, but Not Much Jewish History: A Review of The Argentinian Prostitute Play
Tova Benjamin
Tova Benjamin reviews The Argentinian Prostitute Play, a new play by Reuven Glezer staged as part of the 2019 Broadway Bound Theatre Festival.
Oct 10, 2019
Blog
Call for Submissions: Briv funem Arkhiv
The Editors
Our new Briv funem arkhiv section will feature short pieces about interesting, significant, funny, or surprising archival finds.
Sep 22, 2019
Blog
Northern Voices: New Yiddish Song in Sweden
Jewlia Eisenberg
Eisenberg reviews Shtoltse Lider, a multimedia stage show, with songs in Yiddish and English, and explanations and evocations in Swedish, from Swedish duo Ida and Louise.
Jun 25, 2019
Blog
The Latest in Yiddish Studies in English: 2018
Joshua Price, Dory Fox and Saul Noam Zaritt
A bibliography of the output of Yiddish scholarship published in English last year.
Jun 19, 2019