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Dec 02, 2019

Saulė Valiūnaitė finds Chaim Grade’s mother Vella listed as a fruit and vegetable seller in interwar Vilna, just as Grade movingly depicts her in his memoir.

Nov 22, 2019

Sam Shonkoff shares a receipt issued to Martin Buber for his purchase of thirty-three Hasidic volumes to be shipped from Przemyśl, Galicia, to his current home in Berlin, in October 1915 — in the midst of World War I and a turbulent year for Przemyśl’s Jews.

Nov 14, 2019

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

Eve Romm looks to tkhines — Yiddish women’s devotional literature — for High Holidays prayers that “feel earnest, tender, and richly human.”

Oct 17, 2019

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

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

Our new Briv funem arkhiv section will feature short pieces about interesting, significant, funny, or surprising archival finds.

Sep 22, 2019

Sep 22, 2019

Jul 11, 2019