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Uri Schreter traces atti­tudes about race in the Unit­ed States evi­dent in Yid­dish news­pa­pers’ cov­er­age of the Tul­sa mas­sacre — often simul­ta­ne­ous­ly denounc­ing the vio­lence and prop­a­gat­ing racist ideas.

Jun 25, 2021

Fid­dler​’s 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. 

Apr 15, 2019

Shay­na Weiss reviews One of Us, a Net­fix doc­u­men­tary direct­ed by Hei­di Ewing and Rachel Grady that fol­lows the lives of three ex-Hasidim. 

Jan 05, 2018

Erin Fai­gin asks utopi­an ques­tions in Clar­i­on, Utah, the site of a for­mer Yid­dish agri­cul­tur­al colony.

Dec 27, 2017

Yid­dish is Dead! Yid­dish is Alive! Yid­dish is the Liv­ing Dead? 

Mar 09, 2017

Menashe offers an inti­mate glimpse inside Hasidic Bor­ough Park. 

Feb 27, 2017

An inter­view with the direc­tor and lead actor of the new Yid­dish film, Menashe.

Feb 27, 2017

In geveb​’s found­ing edi­tor dis­cuss­es dif­fer­ent mod­els of Yid­dish in rela­tion to world lit­er­a­ture through the fig­ures of Sholem Asch and Jacob Glatstein. 

Jan 23, 2017

The chal­lenges and rewards of learn­ing Yid­dish on your own. 

Dec 08, 2016

An inter­view with Ste­fanie Halpern, assis­tant cura­tor of the cur­rent exhi­bi­tion on New York’s Yid­dish The­ater at the Muse­um of the City of New York.

Mar 29, 2016