Blog

On Wednes­day, Feb­ru­ary 26, Pres­i­dent Joseph R. Biden announced in a press brief­ing that he will be host­ing Asch Wednes­day 2022 at the White House.

Feb 25, 2021

Feb 23, 2021

Tech­nol­o­gy glitch­es and COVID-era dif­fi­cul­ties are oppor­tu­ni­ties to be cre­ative and think on our toes.

Feb 22, 2021

Feb 21, 2021

An inno­v­a­tive series of authen­tic real-world speak­ing and writ­ing prompts for stu­dents fin­ish­ing their first semes­ter of Yiddish.

Feb 17, 2021

While we usu­al­ly con­ceive of the archive as a place to learn about the past, today we’re look­ing at a repos­i­to­ry that can tell us about the place of Yid­dish in today’s world full of rapid dig­i­tal com­mu­ni­ca­tion… and spam.

Feb 17, 2021

In time for Valen­tine’s Day 2021, James Nadel intro­duces us to Uriel Wein­re­ich’s 1948 bilin­gual, mul­ti-page, anti-Valen­tine’s-Day valen­tine to his future wife, Bina Silverman.

Feb 12, 2021

Uri Schreter reviews two new albums from Daniel Kahn and Psoy Korolenko.

Feb 11, 2021

A roundup of trans­la­tions pub­lished in 2020. 

Jan 24, 2021

What hap­pens when you move a klezmer fes­ti­val online? Eka­te­ri­na Kuznetso­va reviews Yid­dish cul­ture in the era of COVID-19 at Shtetl Berlin 2020.

Jan 19, 2021