Blog

Jan 10, 2025

Through translation and creative writing - in the form of found poems - Dalia Wolfson explores the experiences of the women reciting tkhines in the Early Modern period.

Jul 12, 2024

Yiddish Book Center fellows Charlotte Apter, Joseph Reisberg, and Caleb Sher, together with bibliographer David Mazower, unpacked a historic donation of the 500 or so titles that made up Norma Fain Pratt’s collection of women’s writing in Yiddish.

Nov 12, 2023

An interview with a pioneering Yiddish feminist translator.

Jun 19, 2023

A lyrical essay on relationships between a translator and previous generations: Liba Augenfeld, a native Yiddish speaker who lived in Vilna before the Holocaust and could share linguistic and cultural knowledge she knew first hand, and the translator’s own mother who had a conflicted relationship with Yiddish.

May 25, 2023

Faith Jones’ analysis of the strategies used to suppress Yiddish women’s writing (based on Joanna Russ’s 1983 essay) help us understand the ways that Tea Arciszewska’s male contemporaries all too often belittled and dismissed her contributions.

Jun 02, 2022

Joanna Russ’ 1983 schematic of strategies and dynamics that suppress women’s writing — along with some additions specific to modern Yiddish culture — helps explain both the historical suppression of Yiddish women writers and more recent challenges to feminist scholarship on women’s Yiddish writing. Faith Jones guides us to make the Yiddish future together, and to make our place in it.

May 31, 2022

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

An interview with Naomi Seidman, Chancellor Jackman Professor of the Humanities at the University of Toronto, and Basya Schechter, musician and founder of Pharoah’s Daughter, who are working on their compelling project called The Bais Yaakov project.

Jun 05, 2019

May 27, 2019