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Interview
Destruction Is and Is Not Forever : An Interview with emet ezell
on history, poetry, and typesetting.
May 15, 2025
Blog
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