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Essays, interviews, listicles, podcasts, and much more, covering all aspects of Yiddish culture.
Interview
Linguistic Treasures in the Archive: An Interview with Isaac L. Bleaman on the Corpus of Spoken Yiddish in Europe
The Corpus of Spoken Yiddish in Europe, a digital language archive sourced from Holocaust survivor testimonies from the USC Shoah Foundation, is a project funded by a five-year CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation that will serve as a resource for Yiddish linguistics, pedagogy, and language revitalization.
Mar 27, 2025
Blog
In The Great Dictionary of Yiddish Language, the dictionary dazzles
In The Great Dictionary of Yiddish Language: A Chamber Opera, composer Alex Weiser and librettist Ben Kaplan endow enchantment and glamor on their decidedly unglamorous protagonists and, most importantly, heighten our attention to their doubts and torments the way only an opera can.
Jul 25, 2024