Tel-Aviv Diaspora Museum changes its name—and perspective
The message used to be that the destination for all Diaspora Jews was, or should be Israel. Now it’s: wherever Jews reside is their home.
Like mushrooms after the rain: The flourishing of Yiddish culture in the D.P. camps
Holocaust survivors in the displaced persons camps not only had a baby boom, but a literary boom as well.
Why the exhibit on the Warsaw Jewish quarter, Muranow, is so good
One of the exhibit objects – a simple pair of scissors from that period – show us exactly what a typical tool used by Jews looked like.
The USSR Turned Against The Jews. But First, It Was A Yiddish Intellectual Haven.
Only naive observers believed that in the 1920s writers like Dovid Bergelson and Moyshe Kulbak returned to the USSR solely for ideological reasons.
Reimagining the Lively Character of Pre-War Smocza Street
The Jewish neighborhood in Warsaw was denigrated as poor and dangerous but newspapers of the period reveal a diverse, dynamic Jewish community.
‘The Best Hope For Yiddish is in Israel:’ An Interview With Scholar Avrom Nowerstern
“Unfortunately, we find ourselves in a time where writing in Yiddish is utopian.”