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Essays, interviews, listicles, podcasts, and much more, covering all aspects of Yiddish culture.
Blog
A Response to Larry Rosenwald on Yiddish: A Global Culture
I’m particularly encouraged to see how strongly some of our key curatorial decisions resonated with Larry, and I’ll address these and aspects of the broader critique point by point.
Jan 31, 2025
Blog
Yiddish: A Global Culture at the Yiddish Book Center: Reflections on an Exhibit
Yiddish: A Global Culture, the new core exhibit at the Yiddish Book Center, is terrific: capacious, playful, valuably affirmative.
Jan 31, 2025
Interview
A Meeting Place for Two Worlds: An Interview with Piotr Nazaruk and Lublin’s Grodzka Gate Center
Magdalena Kozłowska interviews Piotr Nazaruk about Lublin’s Grodzka Gate Center and the center’s new online exhibit of memory maps from yizkor bikher and oral history interviews.
Jul 06, 2020
Interview
Communicating Jewish History in Poland Today
POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews was decades in the making and now tells the thousand year history of Polish Jews in the old heart of Jewish Warsaw.
Jan 16, 2019
Interview
Second Avenue Meets Broadway: New York’s Yiddish Theater at MCNY
An interview with Stefanie Halpern, assistant curator of the current exhibition on New York’s Yiddish Theater at the Museum of the City of New York.
Mar 29, 2016