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David G. Roskies

David G. Roskies is the Sol and Evelyn Henkind Chair emeritus in Yiddish Literature and Culture and a professor emeritus of Jewish literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary.

  • Had the heartland of Yiddish not been destroyed; had Max Weinreich not been forced into exile; and had Jewish youth not found other paths, there would have been no ‘History of the Yiddish Language’
    Had the heartland of Yiddish not been destroyed; had Max Weinreich not been forced into exile; and had Jewish youth not found other paths, there would have been no ‘History of the Yiddish Language’
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    The Legend of Max Weinreich

    The Jewish linguist hoped to make prewar Vilna into a secular Ashkenazi Jerusalem. Instead he became the greatest historian of Yiddish from his exile in New York.

    byDavid G. Roskies
  • David Roskies in 1970 (left), and Havurat Shalom in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
    David Roskies in 1970 (left), and Havurat Shalom in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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    A Jewish World of Infinite Possibility

    Looking back at 50 years of Havurat Shalom, one of the longest-lasting creations of the havurah movement

    byDavid G. Roskies
  • Ghetto police escorting residents for deportation, 1942-1944.
    Ghetto police escorting residents for deportation, 1942-1944.
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    Poland’s Judas Holocaust

    The Polish parliament seeks to ban the landscape of contiguous evil recognized by the country’s greatest postwar writers

    byDavid G. Roskies
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