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Essays, interviews, listicles, podcasts, and much more, covering all aspects of Yiddish culture.

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Queering Broadway: Indecent and Lesbian Yiddish Love

Onstage, inti­ma­cy that’s untranslatable. 

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Going Off Script: The Contradictory Pleasures of Unorthodox

Roni Masel pro­pos­es a failed watch­ing” of Net­flix’s new series Unortho­dox that side­steps ques­tions of authen­tic­i­ty in rep­re­sen­ta­tion and instead gen­er­ates what we could call queer plea­sure or OTD pleasure.”

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Be Yourself! (with a little help): Creating the First Yiddish LGBTQ Youth Guide

Jonathan Branf­man and Lili Rosen dis­cuss nav­i­gat­ing queer Yid­dish vocab­u­lary with Tal­mu­dic asso­ci­a­tions; how to make a Hasidic chil­dren’s book acces­si­ble for many oth­er Yid­dish read­ers as well; and oth­er con­sid­er­a­tions in Rosen’s trans­la­tion of Branf­man’s LGBTQ youth guide.

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