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Jill Soloway and Mic­ah Fitzer­man-Blue on writ­ing Trans­par­ent in Yid­dish, whether or not you noticed. 

Mar 01, 2016

An Israeli TV show about the Hasidic Shtisel fam­i­ly explores the coun­try’s com­pli­cat­ed lan­guage politics. 

Mar 06, 2016

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

Mar 27, 2016

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

Nov 26, 2018

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.”

Jun 29, 2020

The new ARD mini-series Die Zwei­flers (The Zwei­flers), a Ger­man TV, depicts the involve­ment of four gen­er­a­tions of a Jew­ish fam­i­ly and their involve­ment in the red-light dis­trict in post-Holo­caust Frank­furt, and dis­plays their usage of Yid­dish as it shifts over generations.

Feb 24, 2025