The Tsene-rene: In Search of a Seventeenth-Century Yiddish Bible in Modern-Day Jerusalem
Avi Blitz discusses the popularity and gender-inflected attitude toward the Tsene-rene in Haredi communities in contemporary Israel.
May 06, 2019
New Yiddish Film and the Transvernacular
The study of Yiddish cinema gets updated for the twenty-first century, Margolis explores how the language is being used in film in the last decade.
Dec 18, 2016
Shtisel’s Ghosts: The Politics of Yiddish in Israeli Popular Culture
An Israeli TV show about the Hasidic Shtisel family explores the country's complicated language politics.
Mar 06, 2016