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

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Confessions of a Yiddish Writer and Other Essays: An Interview with Goldie Morgentaler

Matthew John­son and Corbin Allardice talk with Goldie Mor­gen­taler, Cha­va Rosenfarb’s daugh­ter and edi­tor and trans­la­tor of a recent­ly pub­lished col­lec­tion of Rosen­far­b’s essays. 

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Feminism, Creativity and Translation: Chava Rosenfarb Translates Jewish-Canadian Women Writers into Yiddish

Goldie Mor­gen­taler reflects on why her moth­er, the nov­el­ist Cha­va Rosen­farb, might have cho­sen to trans­late the work of two oth­er Jew­ish Cana­di­an women writ­ers — her friends Miri­am Wadding­ton and Adele Wise­man, who both wrote in Eng­lish — into Yiddish.

Interview

FENTSTER: A Window Gallery Exploring the Jewish Experience through Artists' Eyes

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

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