Yiddish
Hampshire College, incubator of Yiddish Book Center, pioneer in Holocaust studies, to close
The closure, which follows semester after years of financial troubles, won’t affect the Yiddish Book Center, which operates on land purchased from the college in Amherst, Massachusetts.
There was always a third Singer: Yiddish literary diamonds revealed - review
Parashat Vayikra: Mutual responsibility
Living on pins and needles: Israel faces uncertainty at the prospect of war - opinion
Painted Jewish time machines: New exhibition challenges multi-cultural norms
The exhibition has a work that presents a powerful vision of Hell, but it may leave the viewers alone when they wonder what moral responsibilities they have now, having witnessed it?
Why do people love dead Jews?
Novelist and academic Dara Horn's new book gets to the core question underlying every antisemitic act: For many gentiles “Jews were people who were supposed to be dead."
Forgotten novel by Sholom Aleichem published in English for first time
Sholom Aleichem, the pen name of Shalom Rabinowitz (1859-1916), was a masterful storyteller whose keen eye, wit and humor earned him the reputation as the Jewish Mark Twain.
Grapevine October 3, 2021: October 6 – a significant date
Movers and shakers in Israeli society.
Ruth Wisse on the miracle of modern Jewish history
The iconic Yiddish literature expert talks about her latest translation, her upcoming memoir, and the enduring success of Yiddish literature.
Jewish South African history and legacy explored in new documentary
A new documentary Johanessburg-based producer Mark Wade 'Legends & Legacies: A Story of a Community' examines South African Jews' trials, tribulations and triumps.
Legends & Legacies: Exploring the history of South African Jews on TV
The television series launched on July 11, 2021 as an online charity premiere for the Union of Jewish Women, which my late mother, Roseve (Saacks) Linde, once headed.
Isabel Frey, the Jewish Viennese musician who thrives on Yiddish
Frey is not only here to perform for a live audience, she is also taking an intensive Yiddish course at the University of Tel Aviv.
Yiddish writers knew from pogroms. Here’s what they can teach about Tulsa
How Yiddish writing viewed matters of race in America.
Alternate History: Zion by the shores of Alaska
While the stories in Alternate History are conjectural, they may have some basis in fact and this is the case in The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, a 2007 novel by Michael Chabon.
