“briv funem arkhiv”

This essay offers the first fruits of laborious research in Grade’s papers, which were were jointly acquired by the National Library of Israel and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York in 2013.

Today’s Yiddishists can find historical models for politically-engaged cultural activism in Nick Underwood’s account of interwar Paris.

A passionate social criticism can only be born from care for the society one criticizes and a deep familiarity with both its beauty and its flaws.

Yisroel Rabon weighs in on language debates among Yiddishists in the wake of Sholem Asch’s visit to Palestine in 1936.

This is a welcome translation of an important Yiddish novel.

Saulė Valiūnaitė offers a glimpse into the storied Velfke’s restaurant, a gathering place for Yiddish writers, actors, and artists in interwar Vilne.

Sholem Asch’s arrival at the small house at 50 Arlozorov Street in the coastal town of Bat Yam, near Tel Aviv, was to be his final move in over two decades of travels. Six decades later, the house has been carefully restored and reopened as a museum.