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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

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

What draws us to embody lan­guage, or to make explic­it how lan­guage embod­ies us? 

Jul 06, 2017

Writ­ing Yid­dish poems and resist­ing assim­i­la­tion in the Dal­las Arbeter Ring 

Dec 13, 2017