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Jennifer Young is YIVO’s Digital Learning Curator and served as Director of Education at YIVO for three years.

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.

Marc Caplan is a scholar of Yiddish literature and Jewish modernism.

How can Yiddish describe the scene of a lynching of a black man? Marc Caplan examines the language strategies of Opatoshu’s “Lintsheray.”