Feb 2017
A collection of translations, articles, and reflections about different aspects of Jewish encounters in Yiddish with slavery and race in the United States.
A collection of translations, articles, and reflections about different aspects of Jewish encounters in Yiddish with slavery and race in the United States.
Af der shvel un in der fremd: A feuilleton on Yiddish, Race, and the American Literary Imagination
Adam Zachary Newton examines the American Jewish literary impulse to claim both whiteness and alienation while identifying with Black Americans.
Jun 21, 2016
Beyond the Color Line: Jews, Blacks, and the American Racial Imagination
NYU Doctoral Candidate Jennifer Young explores the complicated ways in which American Jews claimed whiteness while examining and often identifying with Black American struggles.
Jun 21, 2016
A translation of Opatoshu’s 1920s story about a lynching in the American south and excerpts of two articles analyzing the representation of race in the story.
לינטשערײַ
A Lynching
The gritty, and controversial 1920s account of a lynching by Joseph Opatoshu.
Jun 21, 2016
Yiddish Exceptionalism: Lynching, Race, and Racism in Opatoshu’s “Lintsheray”
How can Yiddish describe the scene of a lynching of a black man? Marc Caplan examines the language strategies of Opatoshu’s “Lintsheray.”
Jun 21, 2016
“This is How a Generation Grows”: Lynching as a Site of Ethical Loss in Opatoshu’s “Lintsheray”
What can Opatoshu’s controversial story about a lynching tell us about the complex Jewish encounter with American culture and the potential loss of an ethical tradition.
Jun 21, 2016
A translation of Isaac Meir Dik’s introduction to his translation of Uncle Tom’s Cabin and a teaching guide for this translation.
די שקלאַפֿערײַ אָדער די לײַב־אייגנשאַפֿט
Slavery or Serfdom
Dik’s introduction to his 1868 translation of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Nov 17, 2015
Teaching Guide for Dik’s “Slavery or Serfdom” (trans. Rosenblatt)
The first in a series of teaching guides, this one for Eli Rosenblatt’s translation of Isaac Meir Dik’s introduction to his 1868 adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852).
Oct 25, 2016