Blog

Our read­ers’ favorite posts from the 2019 – 2020 pub­lish­ing year, includ­ing trans­la­tions, peer-reviewed schol­ar­ly arti­cles, per­son­al essays, roundups of Yid­dish resources, and even a piece from our Purim issue.

Jul 14, 2020

Mag­dale­na Kozłows­ka inter­views Piotr Nazaruk about Lublin’s Grodz­ka Gate Cen­ter and the cen­ter’s new online exhib­it of mem­o­ry maps from yizkor bikher and oral his­to­ry interviews.

Jul 06, 2020

Roni Masel pro­pos­es a ​“failed watch­ing” of Net­flix’s new series Unortho­dox that side­steps ques­tions of authen­tic­i­ty in rep­re­sen­ta­tion and instead ​“gen­er­ates what we could call queer plea­sure or OTD pleasure.”

Jun 29, 2020

Faith Hillis reflects on build­ing dig­i­tal Yid­dish com­mu­ni­ty amid the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic and the Black Lives Mat­ter protests.

Jun 22, 2020

Bilin­gual reflec­tions com­piled by Zackary Sholem Berg­er and authored by Berg­er, Sara Feld­man, and Antho­ny Rus­sell, Jew­ish activists who took part in recent Black Lives Mat­ter protests.

Jun 19, 2020

Mey­er Wein­shel and Asya Vais­man Schul­man speak about devel­op­ing Vais­man Schul­man’s new Yid­dish text­book, In eynem, com­ing from the Yid­dish Book Cen­ter this summer.

Jun 16, 2020

Mari­na May­ors­ki talks with Sarah Bunin Benor about her work record­ing, pre­serv­ing, and teach­ing about Jew­ish languages.

Jun 12, 2020

Hes­kes explores the con­tents of a slim, blue-leathered note­book he found in his par­ents’ garage. The note­book belonged to his grandmother’s moth­er, the Yid­dish writer Dora Schulner.

May 28, 2020

Moyshe Klayn­man’s remark­able 1943 man­u­script relates his ten-month impris­on­ment at the Tre­blin­ka II exter­mi­na­tion camp, his escape dur­ing the August 2, 1943 pris­on­er revolt, and much more. There is only one oth­er known sur­vivor source writ­ten so ear­ly, and there are no oth­er known Tre­blin­ka sur­vivor mem­oirs avail­able only in the orig­i­nal Yiddish.

May 22, 2020

We are seek­ing sub­mis­sions for a spe­cial issue on Yid­dish pop­u­lar theater.

May 18, 2020