Yiddish literature
“The ever-resounding links of the golden chain.”
Zalman Shneour.
Hersh Nomberg, Zalman Shneur, and the plight of the “plucked” hero.
Moshkele the thief.
I.J. Singer’s The Brothers Ashkenazi.
The memoirs of this 17th-century Jewish woman have long fascinated historians. For the first time, a complete English edition brings her to life for today’s readers.
From art to crude propaganda.
Chava Rosenfarb’s poetry by other means.
In Ashkenazi folklore, the fruit was a charm for fertility.
Jacob Dinezon’s The Dark Young Man.
An admirer of Marc Chagall and a muse to Bruno Schulz.
The renowned expert on Yiddish literature stops by to talk everything Tevye, Fiddler, Sholem Aleichem, and more.
The great poet safely traversed a minefield by counting in poetic meters.
A simple protagonist and a very, very complicated people.
