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Essays, interviews, listicles, podcasts, and much more, covering all aspects of Yiddish culture.
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Translated and Improved: Yiddish Pop Culture in Israel
Yiddish is moving from the outskirts to the center of Israeli pop culture. Avi Blitz asks how that happens.
Nov 26, 2018
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
Interview
Bad Jews Making Good TV: An Interview with Yidlife Crisis
Jamie Elman and Eli Batalion on language politics in Montreal, Jewish comedy, and making pop culture in Yiddish.
Mar 27, 2016
Blog
Shtisel’s Ghosts: The Politics of Yiddish in Israeli Popular Culture
An Israeli TV show about the Hasidic Shtisel family explores the country’s complicated language politics.
Mar 06, 2016
Blog
Yiddish Counterlives, or How to Think Beyond Broadway Yiddish
When American popular culture imagines Yiddish as a language of vulgar comedy, how can Yiddish cultural activists respond?
Dec 24, 2015