Miriam Udel is Judith London Evans director of the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies at Emory University. She is the author of Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children’s Literature, forthcoming in October from Princeton University Press”
Miriam Udel
By Miriam Udel
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Yiddish World A story of a child who fought the Nazis his own way
For Yiddish educators, creating child heroes was an emotionally safe way to relate Holocaust history to their students
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Yiddish World No fighting on the day before Shavuot!
Two cousins argue about the meaning of the holiday until they both end up dreaming about each other's perspective
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Yiddish World Children taking part in a Seder while hiding from the Nazis
In Zina Rabinowitz's tale, a teacher keeps the children's fear at bay by appealing to their imagination
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Yiddish World Who was the audience for the rhyming Purim play?
This excerpt of Alef Kats’s ‘Purim shpil,’ presented in English, focuses on King Ahasuerus as a drunken fool
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Yiddish World Frankie’s Menorah (a Yiddish Hanukkah story)
The story, presented here in English translation, takes place during the California gold rush of 1849
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Yiddish World One thing the pirates couldn’t steal (a Simchat Torah parable)
Originally a Hebrew rabbinic tale, its Yiddish translation appeared in various textbooks of the Yiddish afternoon schools
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Yiddish World A story about a Sukkah on the Argentine grasslands
A farmer describes what Sukkos was like for his family when they immigrated from Russia and didn’t even have a house yet.
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Yiddish World ‘The rabbi who was late to Kol Nidre’ (folktale)
The Yom Kippur prayer service is about to begin and all the townspeople are there. But who’s watching the babies?
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