How Yiddish Education Got Its Start In America, From Zionism To Socialism
In order to develop a modern pedagogical system for Jewish education, it was important to answer a number of difficult questions.
A Transgressive, Brilliant Leftist Satirist’s Work Finds New Life In English
“Messiah in America”, now available in English, skewers capitalism, discrimination and an unfair immigration policy.
How The Café Reinvented Jewish Culture
The love story between Jews and cafés had its start in 18th-century Berlin.
How The Vilna Troupe Took Yiddish Theater Global
The Yiddish theater’s first goal was to develop a modern secular Yiddish culture and bring some hope to the Jewish community during difficult times.
How Chabad Was Born In Smolensk
The Russian city of Smolensk is located in a region that has historically been contested between Russia and Lithuania.
How Vilna’s Jews Rescued Their Books From the Nazis
Using both Jewish and Nazi documentation, David Fishman’s book describes the day-to-day operation of the so-called Paper Brigade.
Recalling The Unsavory Characters Of Jewish History, From ‘Prophets’ To Murderers
The study of Jewish history had two goals: To create an objective picture of the Jewish past and to defend the Jewish people from anti-Semitic libels.
Grigory Kanovich’s Remarkable Love Song For a Lithuanian Shtetl
“Shtetl Love Song” belongs to the genre of homespun shtetl literature, which began with Mendele Mocher Sforim’s autobiography, “Shloyme Ben Khayems.”
A Fable About a Modern King David
Joshua Cohen’s new novel reimagines the Biblical character as the wealthy Jewish owner of a moving company.
The Fantasy Writer, Der Nister, and His Ambivalence Towards Zionism
The memoirs of the Ukrainian author Yuri Smolich reveal interesting aspects of the Soviet Yiddish writer’s personality and ideology.
