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

Interview

Bad Jews Making Good TV: An Interview with Yidlife Crisis

Jamie Elman and Eli Batal­ion on lan­guage pol­i­tics in Mon­tréal, Jew­ish com­e­dy, and mak­ing pop cul­ture in Yiddish. 

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Translated and Improved: Yiddish Pop Culture in Israel

Yid­dish is mov­ing from the out­skirts to the cen­ter of Israeli pop cul­ture. Avi Blitz asks how that happens. 

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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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