A Yiddish Camp Saga
The weeklong trip to Camp Kinder Ring has been around, formally, for 14 years. But, for the first time, yunge mentshn (“young people”) would fill the bunks, and meet the generations that came before.
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“Link” by The Melbourne Jewish Labor Bund: Zine Review
Zine review columnist Miranda Sullivan reviews the third edition of “Link”, Melbourne’s Jewish Labor Bund Zine, which carries on an over-a-century-long tradition of Jewish socialist publishing.
Decolonizing Through Doykeit: Zine Review
Reviewing the anti-Zionist queer and Jewish “yearbook” series that’s made many diaspora Jews feel less alone.
Curating Digital Diaspora
The Editor of UChicago’s undergraduate journal for Jewish studies is changing the format for a many-tongued, virtual Jewish world.
Revisiting the Jewish Question
Rilke’s translated response to an age-old discourse: “What is to be done with the Jews?”
Student Organizers Form The Workers Circle College Network
The 120-year Workers Circle has a fresh branch: a student hub for advocacy, ideas and culture.
Arts & Crafts, Bonfires, and USDA Flour Sacks: The Little-Known History of Global Jewish Summer Camps
An archival story of how “Summer Children’s Colonies” became known as Jewish diasporic humanitarian aid.
Delicious Yiddish Anarchy at The Pink Peacock Café
A conversation with the Pink Peacock Café on anarchist Yiddish revival and the tastiest parts of diaspora.
Do Jews Believe in Ghosts?: A Jewish Women’s Archive Fellowship Reflection
As I sit around the shabbos table with my friends, my family, I imagine there are others there with us, pulled there out of the past.
Song of Descents
Nurit arranges a tomato rose surrounded by green pepper spirals on a small glass plate of tuna salad. She admires her masterpiece and sets it down next to the box of spelt crackers on the table set for one.
Vaybertaytsh and the Language of Exile
Yiddish holds an extraordinary place in Jewish history. From a Middle High German lexical and syntactic base, Yiddish was shaped by the conditions of Jewish life in Central Europe. It adopted words and syntax from Romance and Slavic languages, and, of course, was heavily influenced by the Hebrew and Aramaic of traditional Jewish learning. The…
Let’s All Be Traitors
Treason has been on my mind a lot the past few weeks. In the Jewish world, the website Canary Mission – which seeks to create a “blacklist” of pro-Palestinian activists – has caused a controversy. Many of those profiled on the site are Jewish – including New Voices contributor Tom Pessah; those of our brethren…
The East Coast’s Top 5 Old World/New School Bagels and Schmears
From pop-up Shabbats around Miami, to black caviar bagel spreads, to halvah ice cream, Jewish food is having a gourmet makeover. The definition of soul food is food of life, which is exactly what bagels are to American Ashkenazi Jews. The bagel has Jewish roots dating back to seventeenth-century Europe, where it was eaten…
Is Swedish Yiddish the Key to Europe’s Jewish Future?
Much of Europe’s political toolbox for facilitating multicultural policies is rusting. One of its biggest and strongest remaining tools, call it the hammer, is the Council of Europe (CoE). This hammer is trying to nail down a web of legislation working towards more recognition for Europe’s diverse cultural heritage. Expanding on the tool metaphor, the…
Interview With an Accordion-Playing Golem
As apart of the 2015 Washington Jewish Music Festival, the Gypsy, Yiddish, klezmer, funk, fusion band, Golem, will grace Sixth and I Historic Synagogue on May 14th. I talked with the founder of Golem, Annette Ezekiel Kogan, to kibbitz about everything from the dance club vibe of their upcoming set at Sixth and I performance…