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My Parents Might Not Be Admitted into Canada Today: Partisans As Irregular Combatants

Rivka Augenfeld, native Yiddish speaker and active member of the Montreal Jewish community, reflects on her parents' role as partisans during World War Two, and the way governments today approach those with similar backgrounds.

Can You Be a Yiddishist Without Teaching Your Kids Yiddish?

Paul (Hershl) Glasser - Forverts columnist and former Dean of the Max Weinreich Center at YIVO - reflects on the numerous Yiddishists who did not pass Yiddish on to their children.

“What Culture War?": Yiddish and Hebrew As Part of the Same Modernization Project

Ken (Binyomen) Moss—director of Jewish Studies Program and Assistant Professor in Modern Jewish History at Johns Hopkins University—explains why he does not subscribe to the "culture war" between Yiddish and Hebrew, arguing that speakers of both lang...

'Really? Show Me!': Rising to the Challenge of Yiddish Translation

Barnett Zumoff, Yiddish translator and President Emeritus of the Workmen's Circle/Arbeiter Ring, shares what sparked his desire to translate Yiddish poetry into English.

Reconnecting Kaczerginski and Botwinik through A Reel-to-Reel Tape from Montréal

Jordan Kutzik, translator and Yiddishist, describes his work as a fellow with the Yiddish Book Center's Frances Brandt Online Yiddish Audio Library— and discusses some exciting coincidences!

We Spent the End of World War Two Hidden Among the Books in Vilna

Samuel Bak, prominent Jewish artist from Vilna, remembers the time he spent hiding in the repository of Jewish literature collected by the Nazis, as well as the work undertaken by the Paper Brigade to rescue books for their secret archive.

“The Masters”: Prof. Ken Moss Shares His Yiddish Role Models

Ken (Binyomen) Moss—director of Jewish Studies Program and Assistant Professor in Modern Jewish History at Johns Hopkins University—describes several of his Yiddish models, including authors and Yiddishists.

Storm Off the Waters of Crete

"Start With the Greats": A Beginner's Guide to Yiddish Poetry

Barnett Zumoff, Yiddish translator and President Emeritus of the Workmen's Circle/Arbeiter Ring, on his list of the greats of Yiddish poetry, and the benefit of exploring Yiddish cultural productions.

Ver Vet Blaybn? Heads to San Diego International Jewish Film Festival

April 2020: Handpicked

The Storied History of Yiddish Publishing

Yiddish in Nature: An Anthology of Newly Translated Work

Mindl Cohen speaks with The Shmooze about the 2021 Pakn Treger Digital Translation Issue.

If I Were in Alabama

Celebrating Yiddish Poetry

Weekly Reader National Poetry Month

Peretz Markish and His Circle

Yiddish Learning Learning Yiddish

2020: The Year in Review

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