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.
Article
Af der shvel un in der fremd: A feuilleton on Yiddish, Race, and the American Literary Imagination
Adam Zachary Newton
Adam Zachary Newton examines the American Jewish literary impulse to claim both whiteness and alienation while identifying with Black Americans.
Jun 21, 2016
Article
Beyond the Color Line: Jews, Blacks, and the American Racial Imagination
Jennifer Young
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
Joseph Opatoshu's "Lintsheray"
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.
Texts & Translation
לינטשערײַ
A Lynching
Joseph Opatoshu
Translation by Jessica Kirzane
The gritty, and controversial 1920s account of a lynching by Joseph Opatoshu.
Jun 21, 2016
Article
Yiddish Exceptionalism: Lynching, Race, and Racism in Opatoshu’s “Lintsheray”
Marc Caplan
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
Article
“This is How a Generation Grows”: Lynching as a Site of Ethical Loss in Opatoshu’s “Lintsheray”
Jessica Kirzane
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
Isaac Meir Dik's translation of "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
A translation of Isaac Meir Dik’s introduction to his translation of Uncle Tom’s Cabin and a teaching guide for this translation.
Texts & Translation
די שקלאַפֿערײַ אָדער די לײַב־אייגנשאַפֿט
Slavery or Serfdom
Isaac Meir Dik
Translation by Eli Rosenblatt
Dik’s introduction to his 1868 translation of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Nov 17, 2015
Pedagogy
Teaching Guide for Dik’s “Slavery or Serfdom” (trans. Rosenblatt)
Jessica Kirzane
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