Diana Clarke is a former managing editor at In geveb, and a doctoral student in the History Department at the University of Pittsburgh. They research the intersections of Jewish racialization, trauma, and whiteness in rural America, and are especially interested in discourses of assimilation related to sexuality and gender. Diana is also a 2018 Translation Fellow at the Yiddish Book Center, and their writing and translation has appeared in the Village Voice, Dissent, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and World Literature Today .
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Diana Clarke
University of Pittsburgh
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“They were unique. They knew it.”: An Interview with Paul Buhle on Field Work, Poetry and the History of the American Left
Diana Clarke
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Interview
Sitra Achra: Shterna Goldbloom on the Ones Who Don’t Follow
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Yiddish Tattooing: Embodied Text
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What draws us to embody language, or to make explicit how language embodies us?
Jul 06, 2017
Interview
Diaspora Nationalism, Yiddish Contradiction: a conversation with Max Sparber
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Max Sparber talks Wikipedia, open sourcing, exile, and contemporary white nationalism in the context of the diaspora
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Interview
Sholem Aleichem’s Digital Turn
Madeleine Cohen and Diana Clarke
An interview with Jeremy Dauber about the new website SholemAleichem.org
Jan 18, 2017
Interview
“Eight Volumes in Dour Maroon”: Josh Fogel on Translating the Leksikon
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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
Interview
Bad Jews Making Good TV: An Interview with Yidlife Crisis
Diana Clarke
Jamie Elman and Eli Batalion on language politics in Montreal, Jewish comedy, and making pop culture in Yiddish.
Mar 27, 2016
Interview
Yiddish on Transparent: A Talk with Jill Soloway and Micah Fitzerman-Blue
Diana Clarke and Saul Noam Zaritt
Jill Soloway and Micah Fitzerman-Blue on writing Transparent in Yiddish, whether or not you noticed.
Mar 01, 2016
Blog
Upcoming Conference: Literary Diasporas in Ashkenaz
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A conference in Paris this summer seeks papers on the literary diasporas of Ashkenaz, with a focus on Hebrew and Yiddish.
Jan 19, 2016
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Yiddish Counterlives, or How to Think Beyond Broadway Yiddish
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When American popular culture imagines Yiddish as a language of vulgar comedy, how can Yiddish cultural activists respond?
Dec 24, 2015
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לויט די לייענערס | Readers Respond: Malka Lee
Diana Clarke
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
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Best Dressed Yiddish Women Cultural Figures
Diana Clarke
Iconic hats of Yiddish poetry, plus the labor of creating a look!
Dec 01, 2015