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

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Milgroym's Cultural Context

Weimar Berlin, Yid­dish art jour­nals, edi­to­r­i­al con­flicts — Nao­mi Bren­ner explains the cul­tur­al con­text of the jour­nal Mil­groym.

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Milgroym and Rimon, Fraternal Twins

A com­par­i­son of the Yid­dish jour­nal Mil­groym and its Hebrew coun­ter­part Rimon, both pub­lished in Berlin in the mid-1920s. 

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The Shtetl Neukoelln Festival Brings Yiddishland to Berlin

Klezmer singers and musi­cians gath­er in Berlin to make joy­ous new sound together.

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In Search of “Berlin Grandfathers”: An Interview with Arndt Beck and Ella Ponizovsky-Bergelson

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.”

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“Fragmented Narratives”: A Story of One Yiddish Word

Eka­te­ri­na Kuznetso­va reviews Elian­na Renner’s new exhib­it in Berlin, Pit­shipoy,” open through Novem­ber 6, 2020, which incor­po­rates Yid­dish into con­tem­po­rary art and dis­cus­sions about the pol­i­tics of col­lec­tive memory.

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Shtetl Berlin: Online Edition

What hap­pens when you move a klezmer fes­ti­val online? Eka­te­ri­na Kuznetso­va reviews Yid­dish cul­ture in the era of COVID-19 at Shtetl Berlin 2020.

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