Unquiet Pages online exhibit

Drawing on the Center’s collection of over a million Yiddish books, Unquiet Pages examines the fascinating contents of Yiddish novels, plays, poetry, memoirs, and reportage.

Unquiet Pages

Unquiet Pages: An introduction to Yiddish literature
The Four Corners of the Earth: Yiddish Around the World

A look at Yiddish's global reach
Verterbikher: What’s in a Word?

The search to create an exhaustive dictionary of the Yiddish language
Sholem Aleichem: The Quintessential Yiddish Writer

The writer responsible for many of the most enduring works, and characters, of modern Yiddish fiction
I. L. Peretz: Hope and Fear

Peretz's thoughts on workers' oppression and his connection to Polish Jewry
Yiddish Scholars: The Founding of YIVO and the State of Yiddish Scholarship

The founding of YIVO and the state of Yiddish scholarship
The Yiddish Torah

The "women's bible" and other versions of the Yiddish Torah
Soviet Yiddish

Yiddish culture in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and '30s
The Modernists

Yiddish modernists and literary rebels
Voices from the Holocaust

Some of the great Yiddish writers who documented their experiences in the Holocaust
Words of Survivors

WWII memorial books and published memoirs
Isaac Bashevis Singer

On the complicated man behind the Nobel Prize
What's Love Got to Do With It?

How changing Jewish gender roles and sexual mores in the modern era were reflected in the literature
Making Americans

Yiddish immigrant culture in the US in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Science

Immigration and adjusting to a new culture driven by a strong belief in scientific progress
Toil and Testament: Sweatshop Poets

Yiddish poets of the Jewish working class
Women Poets and Writers

Though sometimes less well known, women have been writing in Yiddish from the sixteenth up through the twentieth century
3,000 Yiddish Magazines

Yiddish magazine publishing, from Warsaw to the Soviet Union to the US
Translating the World

Yiddish translation in the nineteenth century and beyond

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Unquiet Pages online exhibit

Unquiet Pages

The Four Corners of the Earth: Yiddish Around the World

Verterbikher: What’s in a Word?

Sholem Aleichem: The Quintessential Yiddish Writer

I. L. Peretz: Hope and Fear

Yiddish Scholars: The Founding of YIVO and the State of Yiddish Scholarship

The Yiddish Torah

Soviet Yiddish

The Modernists

Voices from the Holocaust

Words of Survivors

Isaac Bashevis Singer

What's Love Got to Do With It?

Making Americans

Science

Toil and Testament: Sweatshop Poets

Women Poets and Writers

3,000 Yiddish Magazines

Translating the World