Why do so many authors of news articles about the Yiddishist world get it wrong? This question has been plaguing Yiddish cultural critic Rokhl Kafrissen for years. “There is a certain narrative that ...

Allen Lewis Rickman and Yelena Shmulenson smile a lot more in real life than they did as husband and wife Velvel and Dora in the shtetl prologue to the Coen Brothers’ film “A Serious Man.” For that, ...

Manuscripts, letters, photos and speeches from a giant of Yiddish literature, long kept out of view by his late widow, are now online. (JTA) — Years ago, when I worked at the Forward, I had a cameo in ...

This week YIVO and the NLI will announce the completion of the digitization of writer Chaim Grade's entire archive. Years ago, when I worked at the Forward, I had a cameo in a real-life Yiddish drama.