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A treasure chest of images of immigrant Yiddish writers and performers on the beach, by the lake, reveling in the sort of freedom from convention that made their work possible.

By Ida Maze, translated by Ri J. Turner. "I Wash My Child's Diapers" and "Again I'm Washing Diaper Cloths."

In this talk, Professor Anita Norich explores the questions posed in Isaac Bashevis Singer's novel The Magician of Lublin about sin, evil, faith, and the choices available to Jews living in the modern world.

All his thinking finally led him to a clear decision: he had to leave Golodovke.

Recorded January 13, 2022 - Anita Norich talks about how she and other scholars have been working for decades to bring the work of Yiddish women writers to the forefront.

Featuring the work of the Yiddish Book Center and its Yiddish Translation Fellows in the New York Times