“gender”
Blog
“Tear Up The Harsh Decrees”: Reflections on Tkhines for the High Holidays
Eve Romm
Eve 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