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The first in a series of posts about an auto­bi­og­ra­phy found in the YIVO archives from 1930s Poland.

Jan 04, 2016

The sec­ond in a series of posts about an auto­bi­og­ra­phy found in the YIVO archives from 1930s Poland: RJ’s hatred of women but love for the hasidic tale!

Jan 10, 2016

The third in a series of five posts about an auto­bi­og­ra­phy found in the YIVO archives from 1930s Poland: the ched­er years!

Jan 18, 2016

The fourth in a series of five posts about an auto­bi­og­ra­phy found in the YIVO archives from 1930s Poland: sui­cide and the mod­ern library of a maskil.

Jan 24, 2016

The fifth and final post in an inves­ti­ga­tion of an auto­bi­og­ra­phy found in the YIVO archives from 1930s Poland: why do we need to read these auto­bi­ogra­phies today?

Jan 31, 2016

In hon­or of Purim, a fine cal­ligraphed scroll of Yehoash’s trans­la­tion into Yid­dish of the Book of Esther, com­plet­ed by the poet­’s daugh­ter Chava.

Mar 22, 2016

An inter­view with Ste­fanie Halpern, assis­tant cura­tor of the cur­rent exhi­bi­tion on New York’s Yid­dish The­ater at the Muse­um of the City of New York.

Mar 29, 2016

The Lek­sikon fun der nay­er yidish­er lit­er­atur, which is full of hard-to-find bio­graph­i­cal and bib­li­o­graph­i­cal infor­ma­tion about Yid­dish writ­ers, is tough to access out­side insti­tu­tions or from the far side of a pay­wall. By method­i­cal­ly trans­lat­ing and post­ing entries from the Lek­sikon online, Josh Fogel is work­ing to change that. 

Apr 10, 2016

Gen­nady Estraikh speaks with Man­ag­ing Edi­tor Sarah Ellen Zarrow about the ground­break­ing project ​“A Com­pre­hen­sive His­to­ry of the Jews of the Sovi­et Union,” a sev­en-year ini­tia­tive led by researchers in NYU’s Skir­ball Depart­ment of Hebrew and Juda­ic Studies.

May 26, 2016

A librar­i­an dis­cov­ers that Isaac Bashe­vis Singer’s fans wrote let­ters as com­pelling as the nov­els they loved. 

Jun 14, 2016