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A Jewish Folk Poet in Texas: Chaya Rochel Andres and the Yiddish South
Writing Yiddish poems and resisting assimilation in the Dallas Arbeter Ring
Dec 13, 2017
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Yiddish Tattooing: Embodied Text
What draws us to embody language, or to make explicit how language embodies us?
Jul 06, 2017
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The Lonely Hero Needs Reanimating: Poems by Yisroel Nekrasov | רעאַנימאַטאָרן קענען אַלץ: לידער פֿון ישׂראל נעקראַסאָוו
A new book of contemporary Yiddish poetry from the Russian writer Yisroel Nekrasov considers murder, reanimation, the geography of time, and the long work of mourning.
Sep 22, 2016
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לויט די לייענערס | Readers Respond: Malka Lee
A reader writes in to tell us about her grandmother, Yiddish poet Malka Lee, and to dispel an error of identity that’s been floating around the internet for years.
Dec 11, 2015