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Essays, interviews, listicles, podcasts, and much more, covering all aspects of Yiddish culture.

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Yidishkayt and the American Right: Jewish Safety and the Limits of Political Imagination in The Last Yiddish Speaker

I badly wanted The Last Yiddish Speaker to be an American Jewish meditation on American Jewish safety that used Yiddish to pull our political imaginations toward new horizons.

Interview

Communicating Jewish History in Poland Today

POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews was decades in the making and now tells the thousand year history of Polish Jews in the old heart of Jewish Warsaw.

Interview

Questioning the Authentic: An Interview with Zisl Slepovitch of Litvakus

Zisl Slepovitch of the band Litvakus on klezmer, gathering stories, and growing up in Belarus.

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