A new exhibit captures the ‘modern-ish’ poetry and art of Yonia Fain
The enduring power of Rivke Basman Ben-Hayim’s words
Rokhl’s Golden City: Poet Irena Klepfisz has carved out a literary world between languages and subcultures
Rokhl’s Golden City: Turning the mameloshn into erotic poetry
Rokhl’s Golden City: This week in 1952, five Yiddish poets were executed in the Soviet Union. How have their deaths been framed since then?
Rokhl’s Golden City: A different take on Walt Whitman
An enduring and strange epic poem about life in America in the early 20th century—for many Jewish immigrants, a true Promised Land
Yiddish poet Avrom Sutzkever’s 1936 work ‘Siberia’ magically upends a litany of misery for him and his people
New translations of works by the Polish-born modernist Yiddish poet Yitskhok Berliner, whose life in Mexico made him a special kind of mestizo
When a young Yiddish poet killed a Ukrainian leader who allowed pogroms, he helped forge a lasting link between Jews and Armenians
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