January 19th, 2020. A small gallery in Berlin’s Kreuzberg district is crowded and abuzz to honor the tenth anniversary of the death of Avrom Sutzkever with poetry, music, and visual art.
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.
The continuing relevance of Yiddish in Berlin highlights Yiddish not only as a means of communication but as a symbol of cultural and political resistance.
The Symposium for Yiddish Studies in Germany is a unique conference that reflects the possibilities that are available with two linguistically-related languages.