Poet Abraham Sutzkever’s memoirs of the Vilna Ghetto are now in English
Sutzkever’s memoirs were one of the earliest witness accounts of the Holocaust to be published in book form.
Yiddish Folklore Inspires American Artist Debra Olin
Olin’s collages, now on exhibit at NYC’s Eldridge Street Museum, explore the superstitions of Jewish women in the Russian Pale of Settlement.
What does Yiddish scholar Samuel Spinner mean by Jewish primitivism?
Writers I. L. Peretz and Franz Kafka both drew inspiration from Jewish folk culture and Hasidism.
The first Jewish Holocaust museum wasn’t in Israel or the US
The very first Holocaust museum was actually in the city of Vilna, founded even before the end of World War II, in 1944.
New novel drops Netanyahus in American college town
The life of a liberal American Jewish professor is shaken up by the arrival of a renowned Zionist family.
Prairie Sonata: A new novel of Canadian Jewish life
Prairie Sonata
Sandy Shefrin Rabin
FriesenPress, 2020, 288 pp.
Jewish music in Germany after the Holocaust
The new book by Tina Frühauf looks at the history of Jews in Germany through the prism of their musical culture.
The spa resort where European rebbes spent their summer vacations
Dovid Leitner‘s book includes a telling anecdote about a misunderstanding between the Belzer Rebbe and the German-Jewish hotel owner.
A new look at the Yiddish literature that flourished in Weimar Berlin
Marc Caplan interprets the works of David Bergelson, Der Nister and Moshe Kulbak as allegorical critiques of the Modern Age.
The ideological journey of the Forverts in the first half of the 20th century
In his new book, Gennady Estraikh writes that the Forverts was once heavily influenced by the Russian Jewish intelligentsia.