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Essays, interviews, listicles, podcasts, and much more, covering all aspects of Yiddish culture.
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“We Collected Everything”: An Interview with Frieda Johles Forman
An interview with a pioneering Yiddish feminist translator.
Jun 19, 2023
Interview
Toward Hopeful Skies: A Benefit Volume to Support Ukrainian Relief
This August, Naydus Press published Toward Hopeful Skies, a trilingual (Yiddish, Ukrainian, English) volume of two works of children’s poetry, as a benefit volume to support the refugee resettlement agency HIAS’s work with refugees from Ukraine.
Oct 26, 2022
Blog
In Edenia, a City of the Future
Yevgeniy Fiks and Larissa Babji invited artists to engage with Kalman Zingman’s 1918 Yiddish-language utopian novella In der tsukunft-shtot edenia (In Edenia, a City of the Future), published in Kharkiv, Ukraine. They displayed the results in an exhibition at Yermilov Center in Kharkiv, Ukraine in June 2017. Here they discuss the novel, the process that led to the exhibition, and the political and social realities that their project sought to address.
Nov 01, 2018
Interview
"We Should Not Create Enemies": Europe's Refugee Crisis and Yiddish Song
Austrian shepherd Hans Breuer on driving refugees across the border, and getting famous for singing Yiddish songs.
Feb 23, 2016