Heft (Notebook) Articles, essays, and multimedia features about Yiddish and modern Jewish culture In Celebration of Jewish American Heritage Month In honor of Jewish American Heritage Month, we're featuring items from our collections that speak to the history and culture of American Jews. Wexler Oral History Project Spotlights Selected collections and spotlights from the Wexler Oral History Project Harold Bloom In his recently recorded oral history, the late, legendary, literary scholar Harold Bloom recalls Yiddish theater, literature, and more. Jewish Neighborhoods Series Memories of Jewish life from Jewish neighborhoods around the United States, a series from the Wexler Oral History Project Steiner Summer Yiddish Program Students Test Drive Yiddish Typewriter A short video of our Steiner Summer Yiddish students trying out a few of our Yiddish typewriters. New York’s Yiddish Theater As millions of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe poured into the port of New York, a thriving community of Yiddish-language performing companies and venues sprang up on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. The Jewish Reader #1 The Jewish Reader, a publication of the Yiddish Book Center, launched in January 2002 with a feature on Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay An Expert's Guide to Jewish Detroit That you may follow the Vandellas’ advice, and know what to do with your dancing feet when they take you to that curious city due north of Canada Passover Selections From Our Collections A selection of Passover-themed stories, articles, podcasts, and other items. Mississippi Jews: A Photographic Essay Adam Shemper returns to Mississippi to photograph his Southern landslayt. "The Yiddish Zoo" Alligators and antelopes, chimpanzees and cobras, pandas and rattlesnakes, wallabies and zebras—join us as we walk and talk with the animals in mame-loshn on the first-ever Yiddish tour of the San Diego Zoo. Warsaw Stories By Hersh Dovid Nomberg, translated by Daniel Kennedy Stories of modern Jewish life in the growing cosmopolitan city of Warsaw at the turn of the twentieth century. Seeds in the Desert By Mendel Mann, translated by Heather Valencia The story of the author's life told in reverse, from the 1950s in Israel to his childhood in Poland. "South Market" In an anonymous New England city, an unrequited Jewish lover pursues his not-so-ordinary life. List of Jewish Film Festival Favorites for Home Streaming Recommendations from Deb Krivoy, director of the Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival Bronx Bohemians: About the Blog Background and contributors From Hip Hop to Klezmer Socalled demonstrates his sampling process Before Spandex A rare Yiddish tailors’ manual—and the industrious department store owner behind it Chanukah, oy khaneke! A Pakn Treger article considers the "menorah—or menóyre" Too Good to Be True: A Purim Shpil from Northern Italy An anonymous, rhymed comic Purim-shpil from late-nineteenth-century Italy. Is it too good to be true? Teiglach Recipe Small Pieces of Heaven: A Recipe for Making Teiglach
