“politics”
Blog
My Yiddishist Friend Went to Israel and the West Bank: Personal Reflections
Zackary Sholem Berger
A bilingual reflection.
Oct 28, 2024
Review
Review of Adi Mahalel's The Radical Isaac: I. L. Peretz and the Rise of Jewish Socialism
Elazar Elhanan
Reading Peretz as a political thinker, Adi Mahalel offers a case for writing socialism into the center of the rise of modern Yiddish literature.
Jan 29, 2024
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.
Apr 11, 2023
Blog
Voices from Black Lives Matter Protests: קולות פֿון בלעק לײַװס מעטער פּראָטעסטן
Zackary Sholem Berger, Sara Feldman and Anthony Russell
Bilingual reflections compiled by Zackary Sholem Berger and authored by Berger, Sara Feldman, and Anthony Russell, Jewish activists who took part in recent Black Lives Matter protests.
Jun 19, 2020
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
Blog
The Band Community Built: Tsibele at Jalopy Theatre
Noam Green
Noam Green on Tsiblele's radically intimate sounds, and what it means to flag Jewish
Feb 22, 2018
Texts & Translation
די ייִדישע יוניאָנס אין אַמעריקע
The Jewish Unions in America
Bernard Weinstein
Translation by Maurice Wolfthal
Bernard Weinstein's memoir recounting the history of Jewish labor unions in the United States.
Jun 29, 2017
Pedagogy
לויט די לערערס | Teachers Weigh In: Yiddish in Holocaust Courses?
Hannah Pollin-Galay
Instructors share their thoughts on teaching with Yiddish in Holocaust Studies contexts.
Apr 03, 2017
Blog
The Yiddishist Vote: Responses to Trump
The Editors
A round-up of responses to the election of Donald Trump by scholars of Yiddish.
Dec 22, 2016
Review
Immigrants Against the State
Samuel Hayim Brody
A review of Kenyon Zimmer's recently published book, Immigrants Against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America.
Sep 05, 2016