“Yiddish in America”

Uri Schreter traces attitudes about race in the United States evident in Yiddish newspapers' coverage of the Tulsa massacre — often simultaneously denouncing the violence and propagating racist ideas.

Jun 25, 2021

Fiddler’s Yiddish translation merits discussion in The New York Times, not as history or metaphor, but as a window into how Jews tell stories about themselves. 

Apr 15, 2019

Shayna Weiss reviews One of Us, a Netfix documentary directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady that follows the lives of three ex-Hasidim. 

Jan 05, 2018

Erin Faigin asks utopian questions in Clarion, Utah, the site of a former Yiddish agricultural colony.

Dec 27, 2017

A sweatshop worker finds temporary respite from reality at a relative's wedding.

Dec 03, 2017

Yiddish is Dead! Yiddish is Alive! Yiddish is the Living Dead? 

Mar 09, 2017

Menashe offers an intimate glimpse inside Hasidic Borough Park. 

Feb 27, 2017

An interview with the director and lead actor of the new Yiddish film, Menashe.

Feb 27, 2017

In geveb's founding editor discusses different models of Yiddish in relation to world literature through the figures of Sholem Asch and Jacob Glatstein. 

Jan 23, 2017

The challenges and rewards of learning Yiddish on your own. 

Dec 08, 2016

A review of Kenyon Zimmer's recently published book, Immigrants Against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America.

Sep 05, 2016

The gritty, and controversial 1920s account of a lynching by Joseph Opatoshu.

Jun 21, 2016

How can Yiddish describe the scene of a lynching of a black man? Marc Caplan examines the language strategies of Opatoshu's "Lintsheray."

Jun 21, 2016

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

In honor of Purim, a fine calligraphed scroll of Yehoash's translation into Yiddish of the Book of Esther, completed by the poet's daughter Chava.

Mar 22, 2016

When American popular culture imagines Yiddish as a language of vulgar comedy, how can Yiddish cultural activists respond? 

Dec 24, 2015