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

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“Being a man was about being tough, not backing down”: Rappers, Hasids, Sabras, and the Battle for the Future of Jewish Israeli Male Identity

Zion­ism sought to alter for­ev­er the image of the Jew­ish male. Avi Blitz looks at what hap­pened, and how Yid­dish fits in. 

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Briv funem Arkhiv: 1987 Poster Announcing Pilgrimages to Lezajsk (Lizhensk)

Posters like this one for spe­cial events, grad­u­a­tions, sales of Hasidic gar­ments, com­put­ers, new books, videos and more are still pop­u­lar in the Hasidic neigh­bor­hoods of Brook­lyn. How­ev­er, in recent years the inter­net has changed the business.

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Going Off Script: The Contradictory Pleasures of Unorthodox

Roni Masel pro­pos­es a failed watch­ing” of Net­flix’s new series Unortho­dox that side­steps ques­tions of authen­tic­i­ty in rep­re­sen­ta­tion and instead gen­er­ates what we could call queer plea­sure or OTD pleasure.”

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