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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

Eka­te­ri­na Kuznetso­va inter­views artists Arndt Beck and Ella Poni­zovsky-Bergel­son about their recent exhi­bi­tion of Yid­dish-relat­ed works in Berlin, ​“Di far­bloyte fed­er | Berlin­er zeydes.”

Dec 12, 2019

Artist and In geveb sup­port­er Saman­tha Wood incor­po­rat­ed In geveb pen­cils into a work of art now on dis­play as part of an art show at The Art Gar­den in Shel­burne Falls, Mass.

Dec 02, 2019