Dade Lemanski

Apr 13, 2019

Shterna Goldbloom discusses photography, community, and memory. Her saturated, colorful work centers the liminal places where the holy and the marginal come together. 

Mar 19, 2018

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

Jul 06, 2017

Max Sparber talks Wikipedia, open sourcing, exile, and contemporary white nationalism in the context of the diaspora

Mar 12, 2017

An interview with Jeremy Dauber about the new website SholemAleichem.org

Jan 18, 2017

The Leksikon fun der nayer yidisher literatur, which is full of hard-to-find biographical and bibliographical information about Yiddish writers, is tough to access outside institutions or from the far side of a paywall. By methodically translating and posting entries from the Leksikon online, Josh Fogel is working to change that. 

Apr 10, 2016

Jamie Elman and Eli Batalion on language politics in Montreal, Jewish comedy, and making pop culture in Yiddish. 

Mar 27, 2016

Jill Soloway and Micah Fitzerman-Blue on writing Transparent in Yiddish, whether or not you noticed. 

Mar 01, 2016

A conference in Paris this summer seeks papers on the literary diasporas of Ashkenaz, with a focus on Hebrew and Yiddish. 

Jan 19, 2016

When American popular culture imagines Yiddish as a language of vulgar comedy, how can Yiddish cultural activists respond? 

Dec 24, 2015

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

Iconic hats of Yiddish poetry, plus the labor of creating a look! 

Dec 01, 2015