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Race Uprooted: Foreign Observation, American Racism, and Yiddish Journalism through I.J. Singer’s 1932 “Harlem Cabaret”
In “What I.J. Singer Saw in the Black Cabarets in Harlem” (1932), Singer offers an intricate—and often highly unsettling and, at times, overtly racist—glimpse into how eastern European Jews imagined Black people and “Blackness” in America.
May 22, 2024
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CFP: "The Yiddish Press Beyond Its Pages": A special issue of In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies
We invite submissions to a special issue of In geveb that focus on the Yiddish press beyond the usual confines of the printed word.
Jan 29, 2024
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Moshe Rabbenu Splits the Atom: Writers of the Forverts React to the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
A dive into the pages of historical Yiddish newspapers from the dawn of the nuclear age
Oct 26, 2023
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The Continent: Thoughts Toward the Space of Contemporary Yiddishism
Editing collected volumes of Yiddish writing during WWII, Melekh Ravitsh and Moyshe Rosenberg imagined a forum for the exchange of information, research, and ideas with the goal of developing strong ties between Jewish communities throughout the American continents.
May 02, 2021
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Seizing the Means of Cultural Production: Hasidic Representation in Contemporary Yiddish Media
Literary production in Yiddish is booming, but because most of it is coming from Hasidic communities, scholars often overlook it.
Apr 27, 2018
