“Zionism”

Blog

Briv funem arkhiv: Mojzesz Frostig, saved from the trash heap of history

Zachary Mazur

This collection — the intimate letters and a diary of an early twentieth century Zionist politician— was saved from oblivion by chance, found in a pile of trash in Israel. Through various intermediaries, the collection then ended up at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw.

Review

Review of Kenneth B. Moss’s An Unchosen People

Jolanta Mickutė

In this study of Jewish grassroots thinkers, Kenneth B. Moss offers an account of Jewish thought, culture, and choices in interwar Poland.

Pedagogy

Invitation to Participate: Teaching about Zionism and anti-Zionism in Yiddish Classes

The Editors

We want to learn from you about how teachers of Yiddish Studies approach (or avoid) teaching about Zionism and anti-Zionism in their classes, be it in its historical or contemporary manifestations.

Review

Stranger in a Strange Land? A Review of Rachel Rojanski’s Yiddish in Israel

Avi Blitz

Rojanski’s work provides a comprehensive picture of the events and personalities that chart the history of Yiddish in Israel.

Review

Coordinated Movement?: Vladimir Jabotinsky and Polish Jewish Youth

Sarah Ellen Zarrow

Sarah Ellen Zarrow on language politics in Jabotinzky's Revisionist Zionism

Texts & Translation

ביאָגראַפֿיע פֿון "אחד הרבנים המרגישים"

Biography of “One of the Sensitive Rabbis” (Part 3)

Aaron Shmuel Tamares

Translation by Ri J. Turner

The third part of an autobiographical essay of Rabbi Aaron Shmuel Tamares, AKA "One of the Sensitive Rabbis" 

Texts & Translation

ביאָגראַפֿיע פֿון "אחד הרבנים המרגישים"

Biography of “One of the Sensitive Rabbis” (Part 2)

Aaron Shmuel Tamares

Translation by Ri J. Turner

The second part of an autobiographical essay of Rabbi Aaron Shmuel Tamares, AKA "One of the Sensitive Rabbis" 

Texts & Translation

ביאָגראַפֿיע פֿון "אחד הרבנים המרגישים"

Biography of “One of the Sensitive Rabbis” (Part 1)

Aaron Shmuel Tamares

Translation by Ri J. Turner

An autobiographical essay of Rabbi Aaron Shmuel Tamares, AKA "One of the Sensitive Rabbis"

Interview

Diaspora Nationalism, Yiddish Contradiction: a conversation with Max Sparber

Dade Lemanski

Max Sparber talks Wikipedia, open sourcing, exile, and contemporary white nationalism in the context of the diaspora

Texts & Translation

טעריטאָריאַליזם במזומן אָדער אויף באָרג

Territorialism: In Cash or on Credit?

Chaim Zhitlowsky

Translation by Rick Meller

Political theorist and Yiddishist Chaim Zhitlowsky weighs the deferred promise of territorialism against the needs of present.