Classic Yiddish holiday tales can provide hope in these dark times
Secular Yiddish children’s literature relayed the political aspirations, values and anxieties of Ashkenazi Jewry during the 20th century
Secular Yiddish children’s literature relayed the political aspirations, values and anxieties of Ashkenazi Jewry during the 20th century
This appeared in a book of Yiddish holiday stories by the children's author Levin Kipnis, published in 1961
The online issues of "Sovetish Heymland" will be a great resource for scholars and ordinary readers of post-war Yiddish literature
Recent winners include Michoel Felsenbaum and Boris Sandler
Master storyteller Shane Baker recites the classic writer I. L. Peretz's story of a would-be saintly man diverted by a turkey
David Stromberg, the Yiddishist behind a new collection of the Nobel Prize winner's essays for the Forward, talks about the challenges of bringing his work to a modern audience
He went looking for Yiddish books as a grad student. He ended up saving a whole world of literature, language and culture
Chava Rosenfarb's stories are about memory and the impossibility of forgetting
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