“Sutzkever”

This article serves as a biographical and bibliographical reference text to introduce readers to Yankev (Jacob) Pat’s life and career, with a focus on the early postwar years.

Through translation and creative writing - in the form of found poems - Dalia Wolfson explores the experiences of the women reciting tkhines in the Early Modern period.

The stories in this collection are an invitation to reexamine what Israeli literature is: to expand the category of Israeli literature beyond just the Hebrew language and in so doing to disrupt expectations about that literature.

If the manifesto is to do anything, to make anything, it will be in how others take up its charges, reformulate its conclusions, and object to its provocations. I am less interested in its mechanical application than in its ghostly afterlives. It is these possible flights that humble me.

Since 2022, the Yiddish Sof-Vokh UK has offered Yiddish speakers the chance to spend a weekend entirely immersed in mame-loshn. Two of the event’s organizers discuss the immersive Yiddish weekend.