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Texts & Translation
די שמוגלערין
The Smuggler Girl
Rosa Palatnik
Translation by Jonah Lubin and Julia Koifman
A gripping story by Rosa Palatnik about a girl smuggling goods over the Galician border.
May 16, 2025
Blog
Review of Burning Off The Page: The Life and Art of Celia Dropkin, an Erotic Yiddish Poet, directed by Eli Gorn
Jeremiah Lockwood
Jan 10, 2025
Pedagogy
Our Summer of Tkhines
Rabbi Marna Sapsowitz and Sharon Power
Reflections of a rabbi and a Yiddish teacher who shared their respective areas of expertise to collaboratively teach tkhines .
Sep 29, 2024
Article
“An altogether unusual love and understanding”: The Shomer Sisters and the Gender Politics of Shund Theatre
Sonia Gollance
Examining Rose Shomer Bachelis and Miriam Shomer Zunser in the context of their famous shund-writing family, this article argues that their operetta "Der liebes tants" -- a love triangle with an Apache dance motif -- should be read against the grain to emphasize the importance of sisterhood.
Apr 21, 2023
Pedagogy
Critical Language Pedagogy: A Report from an AJS Roundtable
Meyer Weinshel, Sara Feldman and Orian Zakai
A report from a roundtable with instructors of Jewish languages on the current role of critical identities in our pedagogies.
Mar 22, 2022
Blog
IkhOykh: Workplace Harassment and Yiddish Literature
Sonia Gollance and Jessica Kirzane
Yiddish literature abounds with #MeToo moments — representations of sexual exploitation and misconduct.
Nov 02, 2021
Pedagogy
Teaching Guide for Leon Kobrin's "Blessed is the True Judge"
Jessica Kirzane
This teaching guide for Leon Kobrin's short story "Blessed is the True Judge" offers brainstorming ideas, discussion questions, and essay prompts for high school and college class rooms.
Oct 28, 2021
Interview
Confessions of a Yiddish Writer and Other Essays: An Interview with Goldie Morgentaler
Matthew Johnson and Corbin Allardice
Matthew Johnson and Corbin Allardice talk with Goldie Morgentaler, Chava Rosenfarb’s daughter and editor and translator of a recently published collection of Rosenfarb's essays.
Jan 27, 2020
Blog
“Tear Up The Harsh Decrees”: Reflections on Tkhines for the High Holidays
Jacob Romm
Jacob Romm looks to tkhines — Yiddish women’s devotional literature — for High Holidays prayers that "feel earnest, tender, and richly human."
Oct 17, 2019
Blog
The Tsene-rene: In Search of a Seventeenth-Century Yiddish Bible in Modern-Day Jerusalem
Avi Blitz
Avi Blitz discusses the popularity and gender-inflected attitude toward the Tsene-rene in Haredi communities in contemporary Israel.
May 06, 2019
Review
Yiddish Mass Culture in History and Practice: Eddy Portnoy's Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange But True Stories of the Yiddish Press
Ayelet Brinn
Apr 09, 2018
Blog
Making Sense of Squiggles: Teaching and Learning Yiddish Stenography
Elena Hoffenberg
The invisible labor, and liberation, of a shorthand for Yiddish.
Oct 20, 2017
Article
A Poetic Paradox: Gender and Self in Anna Margolin’s Mary Cycle
Melissa Weininger
Weininger analyzes Anna Margolin's cycle of poems entitled "Mary," exploring her use of Christological themes and figures and the expression of identity and self-definition in the poems.
May 18, 2017
Blog
Di Fester Shvester review Got fun nekome (God of Vengeance)
Clare Fester and Kate Fester
Just in time for the new spring run, a review of the New Yiddish Rep's production of Sholem Asch's (in)famous play.
Mar 17, 2017
Review
The Marriage Plot
Dory Fox
Naomi Seidman's new book examines the Ashkenazi Jewish experience of modernization through the representation of changing ideas about love and sexuality in literature.
Mar 02, 2017