Yiddish Literature

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YIVO digitizes writer Chaim Grade’s archive, a Yiddish treasure with a soap opera backstory

Manuscripts, letters, photos and speeches from a giant of Yiddish literature, long kept out of view by his late widow, are now online.

By Andrew Silow-Carroll February 5, 2023 7:00 am

The New York Times called Isaac Bashevis Singer a Polish writer. Here’s how Wikipedia warriors made him Jewish again.

The fight over Singer’s identity offers lessons on the pitfalls of decentralized knowledge in the era of disinformation, with some possible insights about Polish ultranationalism.

June 4, 2021 12:40 pm

Yiddish journals are given a new life online

"These journals — often short-lived — are a fascinating repository of modernist art, Yiddish literature and criticism, scholarship, and political polemic," organizers explain on the project website.

March 7, 2018 10:27 am