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Mordechai Forlerer is today largely forgotten, even in Sweden, but during the interwar period he dedicated himself to what he called “propaganda for Swedish literature” (“propaganda för svensk litteratur”) in the Yiddish-speaking world.

Jun 16, 2025

A conversation about Yiddish, theater, the value we place on the past, and the need to grapple with it.

Jun 05, 2025

Meaghan Guterman speaks with D. Zisl Slepovich about his powerful collection of albums based on songs from Holocaust survivor testimonies held at the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University.

Jun 04, 2025

The Cockney Yiddish Podcast explores the unknown Yiddish popular culture of London’s East End through an array of newly discovered stories and songs from the 1880s to the 1950s.

May 27, 2025

Reflections on two works of fiction that provided an immersive rendering of Jewish persecution in 1930s Austria.

May 20, 2025

on history, poetry, and typesetting.

May 15, 2025

An overview of the world of active Yiddish used and cultivated by twentieth-century literary migrants to Vienna, on the occasion of the completion of Thomas Soxberger’s twenty-year quest to establish the contours of Yiddish in Vienna.

May 03, 2025

Introducing essays describing the projects that our fellows have undertaken to interpret materials from the archive artistically, musically, and for educative purposes.

Apr 22, 2025

A member of the 2023 In geveb/Fortunoff fellowship cohort reflects on the question “How can one ethically use recorded Holocaust testimony as the basis for musical composition?”

Apr 22, 2025

On the role of Yiddish in the Holocaust testimony of Julia Pirotte, a Polish Jewish photographer.

Apr 22, 2025