“Museum”

While focused on collectors in the late imperial and interwar periods—many of whom were Polish-speaking, wealthy, integrationist, and well-educated—this work reframes the significance of the culture created by Polish Jews of that time in all their linguistic, material, political, and cultural diversity.

Dec 03, 2025

Through Homes of the Past, Shandler not only revisits a neglected episode in Jewish history but also offers a profound meditation on the ways societies preserve, construct, and reinvent their pasts. His work will contribute to future discussions on Jewish museology, historical memory, and the evolving identities of Yiddish-speaking American Jewry.

Apr 14, 2025

I’m particularly encouraged to see how strongly some of our key curatorial decisions resonated with Larry, and I’ll address these and aspects of the broader critique point by point.

Jan 31, 2025

Yiddish: A Global Culture, the new core exhibit at the Yiddish Book Center, is terrific: capacious, playful, valuably affirmative.

Jan 31, 2025

Magdalena Kozłowska interviews Piotr Nazaruk about Lublin's Grodzka Gate Center and the center's new online exhibit of memory maps from yizkor bikher and oral history interviews.

Jul 06, 2020

POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews was decades in the making and now tells the thousand year history of Polish Jews in the old heart of Jewish Warsaw. 

Jan 16, 2019

Reading Rachel Wischnitzer's editorial vision for the journal Milgroym as a "global museum." 

Jan 29, 2018

Instructors share their thoughts on teaching with Yiddish in Holocaust Studies contexts. 

Apr 03, 2017

An interview with Stefanie Halpern, assistant curator of the current exhibition on New York’s Yiddish Theater at the Museum of the City of New York.

Mar 29, 2016