“visual art”

January 19th, 2020. A small gallery in Berlin’s Kreuzberg district is crowded and abuzz to honor the tenth anniversary of the death of Avrom Sutzkever with poetry, music, and visual art.

Mar 15, 2020

This cartoon was created as a final project for Justin Cammy’s 2019 course on Yiddish Literature and Culture at Smith College.

Feb 28, 2020

Sholem Asch’s arrival at the small house at 50 Arlozorov Street in the coastal town of Bat Yam, near Tel Aviv, was to be his final move in over two decades of travels. Six decades later, the house has been carefully restored and reopened as a museum.

Feb 16, 2020

Ekaterina Kuznetsova interviews artists Arndt Beck and Ella Ponizovsky-Bergelson about their recent exhibition of Yiddish-related works in Berlin, “Di farbloyte feder | Berliner zeydes."

Dec 12, 2019

In her work on images of the Lower East Side, Blair spotlights the paradoxes of the neighborhood's dynamic status as site of memory and of artistic experimentation and highlights stories and voices often left out of American collective memory.

Dec 09, 2019

Joseph Heller reflects on oppression, solidarity, mutual prejudice, and Yevgeniy Fiks' new book.

Apr 05, 2017