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Essays, interviews, listicles, podcasts, and much more, covering all aspects of Yiddish culture.

Interview

Jewish Autobiographies in Polish Translation: An Interview with Joanna Degler

A inter­view dis­cussing a project to pub­lish crit­i­cal edi­tions, in Pol­ish, of 25 of the most impor­tant mem­oirs culled from a larg­er col­lec­tion of his­tor­i­cal Pol­ish Jew­ish mem­oirs and auto­bi­o­graph­i­cal sources.

Interview

"I salvage the shards": an interview with Polish poet Grzegorz Kwiatkowski

An inter­view with Pol­ish poet and musi­cian Grze­gorz Kwiatkowski.

Blog

Yiddishist Myths, and the Myth Yiddish Studies Can’t Live Without

A report from a Novem­ber con­fer­ence in War­saw Yid­dishism: Mytholo­gies and Iconographies.”

Blog

לויט די לייענערס | Readers Respond: Moyshe Stavsky

Read­ers write in to tell us about the Hebrew-Yid­dish writer who was also Anna Mar­golin’s first husband.

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