Yiddish literature’s best-known character.

A land where “loving fellow Jews has a mystical significance.”

Translation, retranslation, and un-translation.

Young trees covered in snow, . . . charmingly disturbing,

My quarrel with Berish Zhichliner.

Mendele Mokher Seforim’s The Mare.

Can Yiddish literature be delightful?

The Tree of Life.

The ballebos of the bluegrass.

The Yiddish Magic Mountain.

The most tragic Jewish writer of modern times.

Siberia magically upends a litany of misery for him and his people.

Trapped in a cycle of naïveté and doom.

Der Nister died in the gulag, just a few years before his colleagues were murdered.