The Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies offers undergraduates the opportunity to earn a minor in Yiddish and East European Jewish Culture. The broad objective for the minor is for students ...

Bernard Malamud. Saul Bellow. Philip Roth. Joseph Heller. Herman Wouk. J.D. Salinger. Norman Mailer. E.L. Doctorow. Chaim Potok. Leon Uris. That is a partial list of American Jewish writers of the ...

For the first time in history, every issue of the Yiddish literary magazine Sovetish heymland (Soviet Homeland) is in the process of being digitized. The periodical ran from 1961 to 1991, but so far ...

“Yiddish has been made to represent the failure of Jewish life in Europe,” remarked Mindl Cohen, academic director of the Yiddish Book Center. Connecting Yiddish with shtetls, pogroms and the ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. This fall, the Yiddish Book Center presents a major new core exhibition that ...

The Congress for Jewish Culture recently unveiled their elaborate, revamped website to commemorate their 75th Anniversary: www.congressforjewishculture.org. On October 10th, the Congress kicked off ...

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The program in Jewish studies at Smith College explores the history, literature, arts, politics, philosophy, culture, religion and languages of the Jewish people from its origins in ancient Israel ...

AMHERST — It was never in David Mazower’s life plan to move to America for a job at the Yiddish Book Center. It was also never in his plan to spearhead what just might be the first permanent ...

Esther Kreitman, sister of Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, wrote powerful Yiddish fiction capturing Jewish life, struggle, and survival.

H. Leivick, considered by most literary critics the world’s foremost Yiddish poet, died here today after a long illness–two days before he would have celebrated his 74th birthday. Born Leivick Halper, ...

The Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies offers undergraduates the opportunity to earn a minor in Yiddish and East European Jewish Culture. The broad objective for the minor is for students ...