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Essay—From the Journal Papa Stalin and the Happy Family On Communist Yiddish children’s books in the Soviet Union and United States. Miriam Udel April 29, 2019
Nonfiction Heymischer Homeopathy: The Schmendrick’s Guide to Remedying Yiddish Kvetches Chaim Yankel
Essay Why I Write in Yiddish When I write in Yiddish, I’m placing my own small flag, however tattered, however imperfect, in the realm of new Yiddish literature. Yermiyahu Ahron Taub March 12, 2018
Fiction A Minyen Yidn (un Andere Zakhn): A Bunch of Jews (and other stuff) Max B. Perlson, Trina Robbins
Essay 30 Days 30 Authors: Eddy Portnoy Celebrate Jewish Book Month with #30days30authors! JBC invited an author to share thoughts on #JewLit for each day of Jewish Book Month. Watch, read, enjoy, and discover!… Eddy Portnoy November 13, 2017
Nonfiction Raising Secular Jews: Yiddish Schools and Their Periodicals for American Children, 1917 – 1950 Naomi Prawer Kadar
Essay “Her Green Days”: Nature in the Yiddish Narrative Earlier this week Ellen Cassedy and Yermiyahu Ahron Taub wrote about their discovery of the Elena Ferrante of Yiddish literature and her transgressive fiction… Ellen Cassedy December 16, 2016
