For the first time in history, every issue of the Yiddish literary magazine Sovetish heymland (Soviet Homeland) is in the process of being digitized. The periodical ran from 1961 to 1991, but so far ...
The Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies offers undergraduates the opportunity to earn a minor in Yiddish and East European Jewish Culture. The broad objective for the minor is for students ...
“Yiddish has been made to represent the failure of Jewish life in Europe,” remarked Mindl Cohen, academic director of the Yiddish Book Center. Connecting Yiddish with shtetls, pogroms and the ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. This fall, the Yiddish Book Center presents a major new core exhibition that ...
Yiddish — the language and culture — is part of the modern Jewish story, says chief curator David Mazower. And without it, ‘you don’t have the full story.’ What do a leather medicine ball, a steamer ...
The Forward brings you independent, nonprofit journalism with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis of the Middle East, campus conflicts, and more. Sign up for the free morning newsletter today. An ...
Eli Sharabi’s memoir “Hostage,” recounting his experience in Hamas captivity after the Oct. 7, 2023 attack, has been named ...
Penn professor Kathryn Hellerstein discusses Yiddish poetry translation at Kelly Writers House event
Penn Yiddish professor Kathryn Hellerstein discussed the role of translation in Yiddish women’s poetry and its influence on literary history at an event hosted by Kelly Writers House on Feb. 19.
AMHERST — It was never in David Mazower’s life plan to move to America for a job at the Yiddish Book Center. It was also never in his plan to spearhead what just might be the first permanent ...
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