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Zenia Marcinkowska Larsson, who died in 2007, left behind a rich literary and artistic legacy which, now that it has been brought back into view, proves capable of inspiring future generations. 

Mar 15, 2026

on history, poetry, and typesetting.

May 15, 2025

This essay about Yiddish-speaking artist Nathan Altman, written in French by Dr. Pascale Samuel, is from the catalogue accompanying the exhibition “The Dybbuk: Phantom of a Lost World,” on view at Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme [Museum of the Art and History of Judaism] (mahJ) in Paris through January 26, 2025.

Dec 05, 2024

What Andreas Mühe’s Mischpoche beckons is a Yiddish kvetsh—someone to squeeze the term, pinch and press it, articulate where the stress should fall.

May 28, 2024

Weaver interviewed Julie Weitz about her ongoing Doikayt project: A series of ritualistic, improvisational performances at Jewish sites across Eastern Europe.

Apr 05, 2024

Even with a copiously documented figure like Chagall, mysteries can remain. What happened to the mural he was supposed to make for Brandeis University?

Mar 28, 2024

An interview with Canadian producer, curator, and writer, Evelyn Tauben, about her founding of FENTSTER, a window gallery in Toronto that explores the Jewish experience through dozens of artists’ eyes

Apr 03, 2023

An artist and researcher shares her favorite illustrations depicting *Shabes* in Yiddish texts.

Mar 21, 2023

This spring, Debora Vogel’s poetry bloomed riotously across the faces of three buildings in Berlin. Passages from the collection Day Figures (Tog-Figurn, 1930) appeared in Vogel’s Yiddish and in translations into German, Arabic, and English, the letters of those four alphabets painted alongside hobo hieroglyphs, squatter runes, and paleotype. This series of calligraphic murals is the work of Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson (b. 1984).

Oct 26, 2021

Margaret Frothingham and Paula Cohen discuss fire trucks, folktales, and other considerations in Cohen’s illustrations for this new treasury of Yiddish children’s stories.

Apr 21, 2021