“Germany”

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Die Zweiflers and Frankfurt's Yiddish Underworld

Guli Dolev-Hashiloni

The new ARD mini-series Die Zweiflers (The Zweiflers), a German TV, depicts the involvement of four generations of a Jewish family and their involvement in the red-light district in post-Holocaust Frankfurt, and displays their usage of Yiddish as it shifts over generations.

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Yiddishist Community in Intertwined Languages: 27th Symposium for Yiddish Studies in Germany (Düsseldorf)

Sonia Gollance

The Symposium for Yiddish Studies in Germany is a unique conference that reflects the possibilities that are available with two linguistically-related languages.

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Yiddish and Berlin: A complex yet fruitful relationship?

Anne-Christin Klotz

The continuing relevance of Yiddish in Berlin highlights Yiddish not only as a means of communication but as a symbol of cultural and political resistance.

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Family Photos: A Yiddishist Looks at Mischpoche

Sunny S. Yudkoff

What Andreas Mühe's Mischpoche beckons is a Yiddish kvetsh—someone to squeeze the term, pinch and press it, articulate where the stress should fall.

Pedagogy

Notes on Teaching Yiddish in Berlin

Ekaterina Kuznetsova

I’ve always dreamed of teaching Yiddish in person in Berlin. When the exhausting lockdown in Berlin finally came to an end, I started to work on realizing my dream.

Review

Review of Childe Harold of Dysna by Moyshe Kulbak, translated by Robert Adler Peckerar

Harriet Murav

Moyshe Kulbak’s Childe Harold of Dysna—a novel in verse that is inspired by Lord Byron and dramatizes the character of the Jewish flaneur—charms, delights, and brings a gentle sorrow.

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Berlin Yiddish Society Column: Sutzkever's Yortsayt

Ekaterina Kuznetsova

January 19th, 2020. A small gallery in Berlin’s Kreuzberg district is crowded and abuzz to honor the tenth anniversary of the death of Avrom Sutzkever with poetry, music, and visual art.

Texts & Translation

מאַקס ליבערמאַן

Max Liebermann

Rachel Wischnitzer Bernstein

Translation by Sophie Duvernoy

Milgroym founder Rachel Wischnitzer's portrait of painter Max Liebermann (1847–1935) on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday.