Blog
Essays, interviews, listicles, podcasts, and much more, covering all aspects of Yiddish culture.
Blog
Speaking of Sutzkever: On Yiddish in Scandinavia
New research and translation of Avrom Sutzkever’s work leads to a multilingual, multinational convening of Yiddishists in Copenhagen, Denmark and in Lund, Sweden.
Jun 28, 2018
Blog
Playlisticle: Yiddish Orality in an Age of Digital Reproduction
A playlisticle of Yiddish speech acts available in digital formats.
Jun 25, 2018
Interview
Alternative Futures of the Past: An Interview with Daniel Kahn
Daniel Kahn talks about his musical influences, how all of his languages interact with each other in his songs, and what it means to “tradapt” a song across languages and time.
Oct 01, 2015
Blog
How to Build Bridges to People? Benjamin Harshav and Yiddish
An essay on the late Benjamin Harshav, one of the most important literary scholars of the last decades, and how in his work Yiddish served as a bridge between Europe, Israel, and North America, between poetry, translation, and scholarship.
Aug 26, 2015