Rokhl Kafrissen is a New York-based cultural critic and playwright.
Rokhl’s Golden City: Pulling the Yiddish threads of the cannabis story
Rokhl’s Golden City: A new look at the story behind one of the quirkiest Yiddish reference books
Rokhl’s Golden City: The Yiddish side of the spiritualist movement
Rokhl’s Golden City: Changing how we think about the past—and whose stories matter—can move narratives from the margins to the center
Rokhl’s Golden City: A new translation of Fradel Shtok’s Yiddish stories restores forgotten images of Jewish life in Ukraine
Rokhl’s Golden City: The story of Glikl Hamel has endured for centuries, offering a unique glimpse into Jewish life—and specifically the lives of Jewish women
Rokhl’s Golden City: Sing your heart out for Valentine’s Day
Rokhl’s Golden City: Defining the Other—and the Yiddish self—in poetry and music
Rokhl’s Golden City: The rise of ‘nitl nakht,’ and the outsider appeal of the supernatural
Rokhl’s Golden City: How the city is viewed in the Yiddish imagination
Rokhl’s Golden City: London’s Yiddish literary delights
Rokhl’s Golden City: The joy of Hanukkah candles
Rokhl’s Golden City: Inside the world of Yiddish pseudonyms
Rokhl’s Golden City: Remembering the choir boys who worked in Jewish graveyards
Rokhl’s Golden City: What makes a song Jewish?
Rokhl’s Golden City: A new, belated translation of Sholem Aleichem’s ‘Moshkeleh’ raises the question of what gets left out of the Yiddish canon
Rokhl’s Golden City: The connection between a magnificent Temple and a humble hut
Rokhl’s Golden City: Folk religion, tears, and the importance of pockets
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