Blog
Essays, interviews, listicles, podcasts, and much more, covering all aspects of Yiddish culture.
Interview
Sitra Achra: Shterna Goldbloom on the Ones Who Don't Follow
Diana Clarke
Shterna Goldbloom discusses photography, community, and memory. Her saturated, colorful work centers the liminal places where the holy and the marginal come together.
Mar 19, 2018
Blog
Medal Tally for Team Yiddishland at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics
The Editors
Feb 27, 2018
Blog
The Band Community Built: Tsibele at Jalopy Theatre
Noam Green
Noam Green on Tsiblele’s radically intimate sounds, and what it means to flag Jewish
Feb 22, 2018
Interview
Yiddish Linguistics and Digital Humanities: A Conversation with Michelle Chesner about the Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazi Jewry
Jessica Kirzane
Feb 12, 2018
Blog
Avant-garde Journals in geveb: A Manifesto for Yiddish Cybernetics, Part 1
Raphael Koenig and The Editors
Announcing a hybrid avant-garde academic project linking the early 20th century with the early 21st.
Feb 06, 2018
Blog
Milgroym's Cultural Context
Naomi Brenner
Weimar Berlin, Yiddish art journals, editorial conflicts—Naomi Brenner explains the cultural context of the journal Milgroym.
Feb 06, 2018
Blog
"They Have Their Own Language, Literally": A Review of One of Us
Shayna Weiss
Shayna Weiss reviews One of Us, a Netfix documentary directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady that follows the lives of three ex-Hasidim.
Jan 05, 2018
Blog
Where Text Meets Sweat: Reading Yiddish Utopia in the Utah Landscape
Erin Faigin
Erin Faigin asks utopian questions in Clarion, Utah, the site of a former Yiddish agricultural colony.
Dec 27, 2017
Blog
A Jewish Folk Poet in Texas: Chaya Rochel Andres and the Yiddish South
Josh Parshall
Writing Yiddish poems and resisting assimilation in the Dallas Arbeter Ring
Dec 13, 2017