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Interview
Confessions of a Yiddish Writer and Other Essays: An Interview with Goldie Morgentaler
Matthew Johnson and Corbin Allardice
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.
Jan 27, 2020
Blog
“Tear Up The Harsh Decrees”: Reflections on Tkhines for the High Holidays
Eve Romm
Eve Romm looks to tkhines — Yiddish women’s devotional literature — for High Holidays prayers that “feel earnest, tender, and richly human.”
Oct 17, 2019
Blog
The Tsene-rene: In Search of a Seventeenth-Century Yiddish Bible in Modern-Day Jerusalem
Avi Blitz
Avi Blitz discusses the popularity and gender-inflected attitude toward the Tsene-rene in Haredi communities in contemporary Israel.
May 06, 2019
Blog
Making Sense of Squiggles: Teaching and Learning Yiddish Stenography
Elena Hoffenberg
The invisible labor, and liberation, of a shorthand for Yiddish.
Oct 20, 2017
Blog
Di Fester Shvester review Got fun nekome (God of Vengeance)
Clare Fester and Kate Fester
Just in time for the new spring run, a review of the New Yiddish Rep’s production of Sholem Asch’s (in)famous play.
Mar 17, 2017