Yiddish Literature

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.

Lifestyle

Yiddish journals are given a new life online

Culture

The Yiddish Tale Behind the Thanksgiving Turkey

Culture

Uncle Tom’s Cabin in Yiddish, With Jewish Slaves

Culture

A Yiddish-Speaking Parrot and the Pirates Who Love Him

Culture

Yiddish-Speaking Tigers and Klezmer-Playing Bears for Poland’s Jewish Kids

Culture

The Yiddish Writer and His Harem of Beautiful Translators

Culture

A Newly Discovered Story by a Great, Dead Yiddish Writer

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