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

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The 2087th Question or When Silence Is the Only Answer

What kind of life will there be after the Res­ur­rec­tion of the Dead? 

I may not believe in an after­life or in res­ur­rec­tions, but I do believe that cul­tures can be reawak­ened and revived in new generations. 

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Another 'Tradition Omission': Reconsidering Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish

Fid­dlers Yid­dish trans­la­tion mer­its dis­cus­sion in The New York Times, not as his­to­ry or metaphor, but as a win­dow into how Jews tell sto­ries about themselves. 

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Long Lunches at Cafe Jerusalem

A deli­cious dis­patch from the out­skirts of Lviv. 

Interview

Spectacular Vernacular: An Interview with Ezra Berkley Nepon on New Yiddish Theater, Queer Performance Arts, and “Dazzle Camouflage”

On the beau­ti­ful, rad­i­cal, acces­si­ble, pos­si­bil­i­ties of per­for­mance and Yiddish. 

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“What a ‘Medina’ is Amerikay”: Postvernacular Yiddish in Nineteenth-Century America

In mid-nine­teenth cen­tu­ry Amer­i­ca, ear­ly use of postver­nac­u­lar Yid­dish helped Jews locate them­selves in the culture. 

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