David Mazower is chief curator and writer of Yiddish: A Global Culture, the major new permanent exhibition at the Yiddish Book Center, where he is Research Bibliographer and Editorial Director. He co-edits and is a regular contributor to the Center’s magazine, Pakn Treger, and edits the blog Bronx Bohemians, about the Yiddish literary salon of poet Bertha Kling. He also oversees the Center’s holdings of hundreds of thousands of Yiddish books, as well as its collections of sheet music, typewriters, and print materials. He is a founder member and regular writer for the Digital Yiddish Theater Project, and his publications and research interests center on Yiddish theater and popular culture, British Jewish history, Jewish art, and the life and work of his great-grandfather, the Yiddish writer Sholem Asch. His most recent published articles focus on Ida Broyner, Esther Carp, and Dina Matus, the women artists of Farlag Achrid, a feminist project which issued a trilogy of avant-garde illustrated books in Lodz in 1921.
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Blog
A Response to Larry Rosenwald on Yiddish: A Global Culture
David Mazower
I’m particularly encouraged to see how strongly some of our key curatorial decisions resonated with Larry, and I’ll address these and aspects of the broader critique point by point.
Jan 31, 2025
Texts & Translation
אַן אָפֿענער בריװ צו יענטע סערדאַצקי
An Open Letter to Yente Serdatsky
Chaim Gutman
Translation by Faith Jones, Anita Norich and David Mazower
A translation of Der lebediker’s satirical letter to Yente Serdatsky.
Dec 07, 2023
Texts & Translation
װײַבעריקום טאַלאַנטיקום אײַנלײַטיגונגס
Womanistic Talentistic Introductionarium
Froym-Leyb Volfson
Translation by David Mazower, Anita Norich and Faith Jones
A translation of Froym-Leyb Volfson’s satirical poem about women writers.
Dec 07, 2023
Texts & Translation
„מײַן טאַטע פֿאַרברענט מײַנע לידער“ און „דער שרײַבער־באַל...“
“My Father Burns My Poems” and “The Writer’s Ball”
Malka Lee
Translation by Faith Jones, Anita Norich and David Mazower
Translations of excerpts from Malka Lee’s memoir, Durkh kindershe oygn.
Dec 07, 2023
Texts & Translation
צו מײַן ברודער אַבֿרהם רײזען
To My Brother Avrom Reisen
Sarah Reisen
Translation by Faith Jones, Anita Norich and David Mazower
A translation of Sarah Reisen’s poem to her brother, Avrom.
Dec 07, 2023
Texts & Translation
אַ פּאָר שעה אין פֿרױען־װעלט
A Few Hours in Women’s World
Chana Blankshteyn
Translation by Anita Norich, Faith Jones and David Mazower
A translation of Chana Blankshteyn’s repotage on Sore Reyzn’s speech in the Women’s Union in March 1927.
Dec 07, 2023
Texts & Translation
מײדלעך, פֿרױען, װײַבער—ייִדישע דיכטערינס
Girls, Women, Ladies–Yiddish Poetesses
Melekh Ravitch
Translation by Anita Norich, Faith Jones and David Mazower
A translation of Melech Ravitsh’s “Meydelkh, froyen, vayber—yidishe dikhterins.”
Dec 07, 2023
Texts & Translation
מײדלעך, פֿרױען, װײַבער און...נבואה
Girls, Women, Ladies and... Prophecy
Kadya Molodovsky
Translation by Anita Norich, Faith Jones and David Mazower
A translation of Kadya Molodowsky’s response to Melech Ravitsh’s article about women writers.
Dec 07, 2023
Texts & Translation
פֿראַדל שטאָק
Fradl Shtok
Rokhl Auerbach
Translation by Anita Norich, David Mazower and Faith Jones
A translation of Rokhl Auerbach’s review of Fradl Shtok’s short story collection.
Dec 07, 2023
Texts & Translation
אַ קוש
A Kiss
Celia Dropkin
Translation by Faith Jones, Anita Norich and David Mazower
A translation of Celia Dropkin’s “A kush.”
Nov 19, 2023
Blog
Briv funem Arkhiv: Letter from Itzik Manger to Sholem Asch
David Mazower
Is there a more extraordinary and self-lacerating letter in all of Yiddish literature than this airmail from its most beloved poet to its most celebrated novelist?
Dec 18, 2019