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A inter­view dis­cussing a project to pub­lish crit­i­cal edi­tions, in Pol­ish, of 25 of the most impor­tant mem­oirs culled from a larg­er col­lec­tion of his­tor­i­cal Pol­ish Jew­ish mem­oirs and auto­bi­o­graph­i­cal sources.

Jan 31, 2023

The mul­ti­fac­eted phe­nom­e­non of the Yid­dish avant-garde holds a bor­der­line myth­ic sta­tus among schol­ars — a short lived, often con­tra­dic­to­ry utopi­an project many of whose pro­tag­o­nists trag­i­cal­ly perished.

Jan 30, 2023

A roundup of trans­la­tions pub­lished in 2022. 

Jan 26, 2023

A melo­dra­mat­ic stu­dio pho­to­graph illus­trates the widen­ing gap between the Amer­i­can and Sovi­et branch­es of the author’s family.

Jan 18, 2023

As the bian­nu­al Ashke­naz fes­ti­val kicked off, so did the North Amer­i­can Pre­mière of Bas Sheve, a Yid­dish opera, on August 31, 2022.

Jan 13, 2023

For our briv funem arkhiv series, Artur Rudz­it­sky dis­cuss­es let­ters between Vladimir Nau­movich Wais­blat and Sholem Ale­ichem con­cern­ing Yid­dish the­ater in Kiev.

Jan 05, 2023

ZETS! is the sec­ond album of the Mel­bourne-based band, YID!

Dec 14, 2022

This is the In geveb guide to Yid­dish at the annu­al Asso­ci­a­tion for Jew­ish Stud­ies con­fer­ence in Boston, Decem­ber 2022.

Nov 30, 2022

Wel­come to the newest mem­ber of our team!

Nov 08, 2022

An inter­view with Pol­ish poet and musi­cian Grze­gorz Kwiatkowski.

Nov 02, 2022