The Sit-Down Ideas How the Yiddish writer Chaim Grade’s last novel was rescued from the archives, and wrestled into print “Sons and Daughters” is being called “the last great Yiddish novel.”
Ideas 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.
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.