Yiddish Literature
Amos Oz: Israel’s Melancholy Visionary
In a 1966 interview in the Yiddish literary journal “Di Goldene Keyt,” the Sabra writer acknowledged Yiddish as a heritage language of Israel.
After WWII, Her Stories Gave New Life To A Shattered Jewish World
Yenta Mash’s writing poignantly reflects the lives of Jews forced to move to Siberia during World War II.
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.
From Brawls Over Zionism To Rabbis Playing Favorites: Life In 19th-Century Yeshivas
We can’t really understand Yiddish literature without learning what life was like in the venerable Lithuanian yeshivas.
WATCH: Yiddish Writer Yechiel Shraybman Describes His Moldovan Shtetl
An old Jewish judge who refuses to open his eyes - just one of the touching images he describes about his shtetl, Rashkev.
About Three Yiddish Poets From Vilna (Chapter I)
“I’ve read the manuscript that you wrote about me. And I forbid you from including it in your doctorate.”
Pessimism About Iran, Clashes Over Campus Anti-Semitism Dominate Jewish Review Of Books Conference
Abraham Socher, the magazine’s founding editor, promised a day of “arguments that matter.”
WATCH: Poet And Refusenik Yosef Kerler Remembers Terrifying Run-In With KGB
Kerler and his wife, Anya, were among the first “refuseniks;” in 1979, the Soviet government finally allowed them to emigrate to Israel.
WATCH: Yosl Birstein Gave A Yiddish Voice To Israel’s Charms And Foibles
Yosl Birstein was such a terrific storyteller, both in Yiddish and in Hebrew, that he eventually became a legendary figure on the Israeli radio.