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

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. 

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. 

Blog

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.

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