Nadav Pais-Greenapple (he/him) is a writer, translator, Yiddishist, and award-winning public historian from metropolitan Detroit, Michigan. He is a Vice-President of the Jewish Historical Society of Michigan. His research focuses primarily on Yiddish culture, politics, literature, and
education in interwar Detroit and the Midwest. He lives near Detroit with his wife and three cats.
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In Ford’s Factory
Joseph Opatoshu
Translation by Nadav Pais-Greenapple
Opatoshu reports on working conditions in a Ford factory in Detroit.
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Moshe Rabbenu Splits the Atom: Writers of the Forverts React to the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Nadav Pais-Greenapple
A dive into the pages of historical Yiddish newspapers from the dawn of the nuclear age
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An ovnt bay Littmans: A Night at Detroit’s Historical Yiddish Theater
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Detroit’s Yiddish theater, despite its distance from the center of American Yiddish culture in New York, was home to big personalities and bigger stars.
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