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From Germany to Gabon: The Poetry of Jewish Experience

Jews from around the world participate in unique community event

What Would Historical African American-Jewish Music Sound Like?

Anthony Russell’s brilliant new album attempts to answer that question.

For Afro-Yiddish Performer, the Past is not Past

“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 ...

The Yiddish Author You Never Heard Of, And The Southern Jewish Man Who Will Introduce You To Him

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

An Ancient Oath Renewed for Labor Day

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

Feeding Other Writers, and Myself

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

The Beginnings of A Bintel Brief

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

Publishing the Unpublishable

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

Normal English and the Novel

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