“Belarus”

Review

Yiddish Veršes: How Musical Imagination Can Become Political

Elizaveta Kheresh

Yiddish Veršes, released in May 2025, is one of the most ambitious projects to bring Yiddish-language literary heritage back into contemporary Belarusian culture.

Review

Review of Moyshe Kulbak's Ale lider un poemen, edited by Siarhej Šupa

Claire Le Foll

In two volumes, Siarhej Šupa brings Moyshe Kulbak's complete poetry to readers in the Yiddish original, Belarusian translation, and Latin transliteration.

Blog

“Ot azey!”: Litvakus at the Museum at Eldridge Street, November 22, 2015

Ari Greenberg

A Litvakus concert-cum-sociolinguistics-lecture doubles as a revolution you can dance to. 

Interview

Questioning the Authentic: An Interview with Zisl Slepovitch of Litvakus

Emma Morgenstern

Zisl Slepovitch of the band Litvakus on klezmer, gathering stories, and growing up in Belarus.