“Canada”

Rebecca Margolis' Yidish Lebt: Yiddish Lives On: Strategies of Language Transmission explores how a diverse range of native, heritage, and new speakers have ensured not only the continuity of a minority language widely thought to be endangered, but evolved Yiddish into a site of creative renewal in the Jewish world.

Jun 08, 2023

An interview with Canadian producer, curator, and writer, Evelyn Tauben, about her founding of FENTSTER, a window gallery in Toronto that explores the Jewish experience through dozens of artists' eyes

Apr 03, 2023

Sebastian Schulman invites readers to engage with francophone Québec through a translation of Émile Nelligan’s "Soir d'hiver."

Jul 11, 2022

Goldie Morgentaler reflects on why her mother, the novelist Chava Rosenfarb, might have chosen to translate the work of two other Jewish Canadian women writers — her friends Miriam Waddington and Adele Wiseman, who both wrote in English — into Yiddish.

Jul 05, 2022

Newly-discovered Yiddish translations by Chava Rosenfarb of two Jewish-Canadian authors. 

Jul 05, 2022

Matthew Johnson and Corbin Allardice talk with Goldie Morgentaler, Chava Rosenfarb’s daughter and editor and translator of a recently published collection of Rosenfarb's essays. 

Jan 27, 2020