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When DOGE routed the National Endowment for the Humanities, hundreds of grants for Jewish history and Yiddish culture were ...
The editors discuss how a previously lost decades-old manuscript was found and pieced together. It's being called 'probably ...
The new English translation is drawing praise but surprisingly, the original Yiddish version was never released in book form ...
Even at the time, the audience for Yiddish fiction was disappearing: “It is lonely,” Grade once told an interviewer, “to have to publish a thousand copies of your own book, and if you sell ...
Sixty years after he first began serializing it in the Yiddish press, and 42 years after publisher Alfred A. Knopf acquired the book, “Sons and Daughters” — the last novel by the late, great Yiddish ...
Sixty years after he first began serializing it in the Yiddish press, and 42 years after publisher Alfred A. Knopf acquired the book, “Sons and Daughters” — the last novel by the late ...
Many survivors came to America, lugging with them their Yiddish books. However, the next generation preferred English over Yiddish. The Yiddish books were soon disregarded, then discarded ...
Fischler has donated about 80 of them to the Islanders, who since 2022 have hosted a display of his memorabilia on "The Stan ...
The conversation sparked by the book — “‘People Love Dead Jews’ ate my life,” she jokes — turned the novelist and Hebrew and ...