
Miriam Udel is Judith London Evans director of the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies at Emory University. She is spending this year as a fellow at the Center for Jewish History and as the Covenant Foundation’s Family Education Fellow.
Miriam Udel is Judith London Evans director of the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies at Emory University. She is spending this year as a fellow at the Center for Jewish History and as the Covenant Foundation’s Family Education Fellow.
This excerpt of Alef Kats’s ‘Purim shpil,’ presented in English, focuses on King Ahasuerus as a drunken fool
The story, presented here in English translation, takes place during the California gold rush of 1849
Originally a Hebrew rabbinic tale, its Yiddish translation appeared in various textbooks of the Yiddish afternoon schools
A farmer describes what Sukkos was like for his family when they immigrated from Russia and didn’t even have a house yet.
The Yom Kippur prayer service is about to begin and all the townspeople are there. But who’s watching the babies?
Secular Yiddish children’s literature relayed the political aspirations, values and anxieties of Ashkenazi Jewry during the 20th century
As America continues its intensified reckoning with questions of racial justice, parents and educators are keenly aware of the need to speak to children about race in ways that feel authentic and relatable. The Jewish community can look to Yiddish literature for models of antiracist storytelling that took shape long before the storied alliances of…
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Not long ago, I arrived in a small corner of Eden in rural western Pennsylvania: a bit of forest, a burbling brook, manicured lawns and camp-style wooden cabins and lodges. Displayed in and around the main lodge was all that a young child might desire—charmingly wrought sand…
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