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Yidishkayt and the American Right: Jewish Safety and the Limits of Political Imagination in The Last Yiddish Speaker
Cassandra Euphrat Weston
I badly wanted The Last Yiddish Speaker to be an American Jewish meditation on American Jewish safety that used Yiddish to pull our political imaginations toward new horizons.
Oct 23, 2024
Pedagogy
Using Yiddish to Teach About German Antisemitism
Sonia Gollance
Nineteenth-century German attitudes toward Jewish speech are a powerful way to understand the pervasiveness and normalization of antisemitism in German society even at a time when genocide was unthinkable.
Jun 17, 2019
Interview
Communicating Jewish History in Poland Today
Madeleine Cohen
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
Interview
Questioning the Authentic: An Interview with Zisl Slepovitch of Litvakus
Emma Morgenstern
Zisl Slepovitch of the band Litvakus on klezmer, gathering stories, and growing up in Belarus.
Nov 19, 2015