In the latest issue:
Featured articles
- Introduction
- Two Diaper Poems
- Cribside: A Dramatization of Life in Politics
- Spadina
- Fear
- The Powdered Corpse
- On Boulevard de Belleville
- Naomi Speaks to Her Daughters-in-law
- During Sleepless Nights
- The Last Night
- Heroic Young Women
- At the Interrogation
- To Rosa Palatnik
- From My Childhood
- Oh, My Language
Selected articles from back issues:
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Allen Moore: Architect
Allen Moore, the visionary architect who designed the Yiddish Book Center's heymish-modern homeIssue: 71
Summer 2015
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Ruth Wisse: Teacher and Mentor
Debra Caplan offers a personal portrait of a pioneer of Yiddish literary studies.Issue: 71
Summer 2015
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Chapters: Words, Pictures, Music
Chapters: Words, Pictures, MusicIssue: 72
Fall 2015
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A Love Letter to the Yiddish Stage: Peretz's At Night in the Old Marketplace, Reconsidered
Peretz's ambitious—if not especially successful—career as a Yiddish playwrightIssue: 72
Fall 2015
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Considering Yiddish Theater: Past, Present, Future
A conversation with Joel Berkowitz, America's foremost historian and observer of Yiddish theaterIssue: 69
Summer 2014 / 5774
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Men of Letters: David Mazower on his passion for micrography, the Jewish folk art that turns Hebrew and Yiddish texts into pictures and portraits
Men of Letters: David Mazower on his passion for micrography, the Jewish folk art.Issue: 63
Summer 2011 / 5771
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"Immodestly Yours..." Sometimes the inscriptions are as interesting as the books themselves
David Mazower shares insights from the inscriptions in his collection of Yiddish books signed by their authors.Issue: 64
Fall 2011 / 5772
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Voices from the Vault: Yiddish Writers Speak Again
Unlocking a treasure trove of recordings of Yiddish writersIssue: 64
Fall 2011 / 5772
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Well Said - Cholent: The Very Food Of Heaven
Az men est shabes tsholnt iz men biz mitvokh zat. (If you eat tsholnt on the Sabbath, you are full until Wednesday.) — Folk sayingIssue: 66
Fall 2012 / 5773
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The Sun Never Sets on the Vilna Troupe
Debra Caplan tells the story of the Vilna Troupe, a "motley group of teenaged amateur performers, Jewish war refugees, and out-of-work Russian actors of Jewish descent" who went on to revolutionize the theater world.Issue: 69
Summer 2014 / 5774
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New York: An Excerpt from Across America
Acclaimed novelist and playwright Peretz Hirschbein had a passion for traveling.Issue: 67
Summer 2013 | 5773
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Jewish Food Purveyors
Young purveyors are bringing the "artisanal" ethos to products synonymous with Jewish food traditions.Issue: 67
Summer 2013 | 5773
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Everything Old Is New Again
Today, a new generation of chefs, restaurateurs, and purveyors are keeping with-or building upon-Jewish culinary tradition.Issue: 67
Summer 2013 | 5773
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Why Read Celia Dropkin?
Faith Jones on the "fierce and uncompromising" Celia DropkinIssue: 70
Fall 2014 / 5775
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Why Read Sholem Aleichem?
Jeremy Dauber on the great Sholem Aleichem, whose "short stories and novels took on the very countours of Jewish history"Issue: 70
Fall 2014 / 5775
