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Essays, interviews, listicles, podcasts, and much more, covering all aspects of Yiddish culture.
Essays, interviews, listicles, podcasts, and much more, covering all aspects of Yiddish culture.
Report from a Conference: "The Avant-Garde in Yiddish Culture: The 100th Anniversary of Khalyastre", June 14-15, 2022
The multifaceted phenomenon of the Yiddish avant-garde holds a borderline mythic status among scholars — a short lived, often contradictory utopian project many of whose protagonists tragically perished.
Jan 30, 2023
The Scholar and the Bookmaker: On Encountering the Material Side of Things
Mann discusses the knowledge she gained through a hands-on encounter with the materials of print while creating her artist’s book “Things/Zachen/Devarim.”
Mar 27, 2019
Avant-garde Journals in geveb: A Manifesto for Yiddish Cybernetics, Part 1
Announcing a hybrid avant-garde academic project linking the early 20th century with the early 21st.
Feb 06, 2018