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

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Best Dressed Male Yiddish Cultural Figures

What the ascot can teach us about Yid­dish cul­tur­al history. 

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A New Year, a New shifskarte

A look at an exam­ple of the famed Yid­dish new years cards. This one is a good year ship tick­et,” grant­i­ng the receiv­er 120 free year­ly round-trips for him­self and his family.” 

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Best Dressed Yiddish Women Cultural Figures

Icon­ic hats of Yid­dish poet­ry, plus the labor of cre­at­ing a look! 

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A Hasid Turns Modern: A YIVO Autobiography, Part 1

The first in a series of posts about an auto­bi­og­ra­phy found in the YIVO archives from 1930s Poland.

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A Hasid Turns Modern: A YIVO Autobiography, Part 2

The sec­ond in a series of posts about an auto­bi­og­ra­phy found in the YIVO archives from 1930s Poland: RJ’s hatred of women but love for the hasidic tale!

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A Hasid Turns Modern: A YIVO Autobiography, Part 3

The third in a series of five posts about an auto­bi­og­ra­phy found in the YIVO archives from 1930s Poland: the ched­er years!

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A Hasid Turns Modern: A YIVO Autobiography, Part 4

The fourth in a series of five posts about an auto­bi­og­ra­phy found in the YIVO archives from 1930s Poland: sui­cide and the mod­ern library of a maskil.

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A Hasid Turns Modern: A YIVO Autobiography, Conclusion

The fifth and final post in an inves­ti­ga­tion of an auto­bi­og­ra­phy found in the YIVO archives from 1930s Poland: why do we need to read these auto­bi­ogra­phies today?

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Yehoash’s Scroll: A Calligraphed Megiles Ester

In hon­or of Purim, a fine cal­ligraphed scroll of Yehoash’s trans­la­tion into Yid­dish of the Book of Esther, com­plet­ed by the poet­’s daugh­ter Chava.

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The Scholar and the Bookmaker: On Encountering the Material Side of Things

Mann dis­cuss­es the knowl­edge she gained through a hands-on encounter with the mate­ri­als of print while cre­at­ing her artist’s book Things/​Zachen/​Devarim.

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