Yiddish

“The past is never dead. It’s not even past…”When William Faulkner wrote these words in Requiem for a Nun, I’m pretty certain he ...

One of my favorite things about my new role as a full-time historian at the ISJL is getting to meet ...

Often reality is stranger than fiction; The vote for one of the first major strike in American history was taken ...

A few days ago my novel,  Fields of Exile , was published in the USA, and this month marks exactly ...

In January 1906, a woman wrote a letter to a Yiddish daily newspaper called the  Forward , to complain that her watch ...

It took me more than three years to finish  Shlepping the Exile . I had a job as a researcher ...

Plot was the last thing on my mind when I sat down to make a novel out of the stories ...

One of the points I make in my book is that what’s dirty in Yiddish isn’t always dirty in English, and vice ...

In my last blog post, I recounted the background of Yiddish linguist Dovid Katz, who has been reporting on troubling manifestations of ...

When I was researching my last novel, my friend Michael Rohatyn found a book at the Strand he thought I might ...

The month of May, known as “Liberation Month,” contains Cinco de Mayo (celebrating Mexico’s liberating victory over the French in ...