“race”
Review
Review of Marina Mogilner’s A Race for the Future: Scientific Visions of Modern Russian Jewishness
James Nadel
Article
My Mom Drank Ink: The “Little Negro” and the Performance of Race in Yente Telebende’s Stage Productions
Gil Ribak
Review
Review of Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine by Amelia M. Glaser
Emily Robins Sharpe
Texts & Translation
An Excerpt from Mississippi
Leyb Malakh
Translation by Ellen Perecman
Edited by Alyssa Quint
Blog
“The Most Awful Scenes”: The Tulsa Massacre and Racist Violence in the Yiddish Press
Uri Schreter
Texts & Translation
Selections from Neger-Dikhtung in Amerike (Negro-Poetry in America)
Anita Scott Coleman , Angelina Weld Grimke and Clarissa Scott Delaney
Translation by Robert Magidoff
Edited by Eli Rosenblatt
Blog
The Skotsboro Boys in Soviet Minsk
Andrew Sloin
Andrew Sloin guides us through a Soviet Yiddish pamphlet about the Scottsboro trial in the United States to reveal how this incident "became a prism to refract the long history of racial and class domination in the United States and a rallying cry to cultivate the spirit of internationalist socialist solidarity among Soviet readers."
Jun 25, 2021
Special Issue
Race in America, af yidish
Translations, articles, and reflections focusing on Yiddish perspectives on race in the United States.
Jun 2021
Blog
Voices from Black Lives Matter Protests: קולות פֿון בלעק לײַװס מעטער פּראָטעסטן
Zackary Sholem Berger, Sara Feldman and Anthony Russell
Article
Af der shvel un in der fremd: A feuilleton on Yiddish, Race, and the American Literary Imagination
Adam Zachary Newton
Article
“This is How a Generation Grows”: Lynching as a Site of Ethical Loss in Opatoshu’s “Lintsheray”
Jessica Kirzane
Texts & Translation
די שקלאַפֿערײַ אָדער די לײַב־אייגנשאַפֿט
Slavery or Serfdom