Why are these Passover ads different from all other ads?
Matsa ads from American Ladino and Yiddish newspapers compel us to reconsider Jewish food history in the United States.
My journey in Yiddishkeit: Learning Yiddish as an Arabic (& Judeo-Arabic) speaker
Opportunity Grant winner Mohamed Elias explains why he chose to study Yiddish, and what he discovered when he did.
Using Yiddish to fight the “othering” of Jews in Poland
Opportunity Grant winner Kendra Berry explains how studying language builds empathy — especially in places where nationalistic narratives dominate.
“Where is the house and where is the street?” Finding Hebrew in the big city
Wendy Zierler shares the story of how she learned Hebrew at day school — after her parents traded small-town success for the Jewish community of a big city.
Book launch with Prof. Sasha Senderovich at Elliott Bay Books
Professor Sasha Senderovich will discuss his recently published translation of the 1929 Yiddish-language novel "Judgment" in this evening at The Elliott Bay Book Company.
Sasha Senderovich releases new translation of Yiddish novel “Judgment”
Professor Sasha Senderovich's new translation of David Bergelson's Yiddish novel sheds light on "the death of the shtetl" during the 1920 Russian Civil War.
Freud, Said, and the question of Jewish identity after the Holocaust
Religious identity was not part of Nick Barr’s Seattle upbringing, but a recent discovery about his family's past shifted his perspective.
A Problem of Naming
For Adam Rovner, teaching "Yad Vashem," a Hebrew story by Aharon Megged published in 1955, the challenges start with the name itself.