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Whether or not The Zone of Inter­est is a good film does not hinge on the usage of a minute-long melody. But I do believe its employ­ment tells us the film was impec­ca­bly researched by a Jew­ish direc­tor with a clear vision for who ought to say what, and when.

Apr 16, 2024

Bashe­vis Singer’s play takes on new mean­ing and rel­e­vance for Ukrain­ian audiences.

Apr 08, 2024

On their album Once Upon a Time the Fire Burned Brighter: Bal­lads From the Yid­dish Goth­ic, Jere­mi­ah Lock­wood and Ricky Gor­don, per­form­ing as the duo Gor­don Lock­wood, con­jure a bygone world.

May 15, 2023

Uri Schreter reviews two new albums from Daniel Kahn and Psoy Korolenko.

Feb 11, 2021

Eka­te­ri­na Kuznetso­va reviews Elian­na Renner’s new exhib­it in Berlin, ​“Pit­shipoy,” open through Novem­ber 6, 2020, which incor­po­rates Yid­dish into con­tem­po­rary art and dis­cus­sions about the pol­i­tics of col­lec­tive memory.

Oct 16, 2020

Tova Ben­jamin reviews The Argen­tin­ian Pros­ti­tute Play, a new play by Reuven Glez­er staged as part of the 2019 Broad­way Bound The­atre Festival. 

Oct 10, 2019

Eisen­berg reviews Shtoltse Lid­er, a mul­ti­me­dia stage show, with songs in Yid­dish and Eng­lish, and expla­na­tions and evo­ca­tions in Swedish, from Swedish duo Ida and Louise. 

Jun 25, 2019