Blog

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

Blog

The Yiddishist Vote: Responses to Trump

A round-up of respons­es to the elec­tion of Don­ald Trump by schol­ars of Yiddish. 

Blog

Voices from Black Lives Matter Protests: קולות פֿון בלעק לײַװס מעטער פּראָטעסטן

Bilin­gual reflec­tions com­piled by Zackary Sholem Berg­er and authored by Berg­er, Sara Feld­man, and Antho­ny Rus­sell, Jew­ish activists who took part in recent Black Lives Mat­ter protests.

Blog

The Skotsboro Boys in Soviet Minsk

Andrew Sloin guides us through a Sovi­et Yid­dish pam­phlet about the Scotts­boro tri­al in the Unit­ed States to reveal how this inci­dent became a prism to refract the long his­to­ry of racial and class dom­i­na­tion in the Unit­ed States and a ral­ly­ing cry to cul­ti­vate the spir­it of inter­na­tion­al­ist social­ist sol­i­dar­i­ty among Sovi­et readers.”

Blog

“The Most Awful Scenes”: The Tulsa Massacre and Racist Violence in the Yiddish Press

Uri Schreter traces atti­tudes about race in the Unit­ed States evi­dent in Yid­dish news­pa­pers’ cov­er­age of the Tul­sa mas­sacre — often simul­ta­ne­ous­ly denounc­ing the vio­lence and prop­a­gat­ing racist ideas.

Blog

Reckoning with American Racism and Racist Violence, af Yiddish

In this updat­ed ver­sion of our spe­cial issue on Race, af Yid­dish, we offer a range of texts about local and inter­na­tion­al Yid­dish rep­re­sen­ta­tions of ear­ly twen­ti­eth cen­tu­ry Amer­i­can racist violence.

SIGN UP FOR OUR MONTHLY NEWSLETTER