Yiddish literature
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.
Classic story about child of divorce now available in bilingual edition
After his parents split, young Yitskhok moves to the big city to live with his father.
The Yiddish professor and female Orthodox rabbi sharing Yiddish children’s literature with the world
How Miriam Udel, a self-described Hebrew school nerd, became the greatest champion of Jewish children’s stories written by secular leftists.
Feeling at home in my Yiddish-speaking bubble
My fellow Yiddish students and I stumble as we try to speak correctly, but we all relish our weekly immersion in that lost East European world.
Sholem Asch’s groundbreaking play, “God of Vengeance”, now streaming in English
The first Broadway production was closed down for portraying unconventional characters and the first lesbian kiss on Broadway.
Silver seders that turned black (Passover memoir)
The writer Melech Ravitch describes his father’s glorious seders, where the goblets were “my father’s unwritten poems rendered in glass”.
The 20 best Yiddish words for discussing 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought us many challenges. But ironically, it’s also helped make 2020 a great year for learning Yiddish.
Celebrate Beethoven’s 250th birthday with ‘Ode to Joy’ in Yiddish
Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata” and “Ode to Joy” were favorites among the Jews of Eastern Europe.
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.
Yiddish culture barely touched upon in ‘The New Jewish Canon’
The message given by the book is clear: for the American Jewish intelligentsia, Yiddish is primarily associated with the Holocaust.