“postvernacular”

Yiddish Cinema: The Drama of Troubled Communication suggests innovative and fruitful ways that scholarship in media studies can be applied to Yiddish cinema.

Apr 25, 2024

Through her work, Gross seeks to validate practices that meaningfully contribute to Jewish identity formation and connect Jewish Americans to their history as a people and to the contemporary community of Jewish people.

Jan 24, 2022

What kind of life will there be after the Resurrection of the Dead? 

I may not believe in an afterlife or in resurrections, but I do believe that cultures can be reawakened and revived in new generations. 

Jan 07, 2020

Fiddler’s Yiddish translation merits discussion in The New York Times, not as history or metaphor, but as a window into how Jews tell stories about themselves. 

Apr 15, 2019

A delicious dispatch from the outskirts of Lviv. 

Mar 29, 2018

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

On the beautiful, radical, accessible, possibilities of performance and Yiddish. 

Nov 15, 2016

In mid-nineteenth century America, early use of postvernacular Yiddish helped Jews locate themselves in the culture. 

Sep 13, 2016