Literary Works

For many centuries, Hebrew remained a language that was not only important but holy for Jews around the world, fundamentally serving their spiritual needs.

A survey of Ber Borokhov’s contribution to research on Yiddish language and literature aims to clearly describe his influence on the history of Yiddish studies and the ways in which his unique combination of political and academic work reflected the times in which he lived.

The essay explores the author’s lifelong engagement with American and Yiddish literature, focusing on the rediscovery of Jewish culture and history through language and translation.

Encyclopedia Judaica has described Katzenelson's Song as "one of the greatest expressions of the tragedy of the Holocaust," and Hermann Adler has called it Eastern European Jewry's greatest poetic act of resistance.

The Shoah (Khurbn in Yiddish, Holocaust in English) remains an event that defies comprehension. Never before had there been a war of such complete genocidal intent waged against a culture, a religion, and ethnic minority that was not a combatant in the war itself.

Hand drawn maps as remembrance practice: Moshe Kleinhendlers memories of his home shtetl, Khmielnik

The Holocaust radically altered the way many East European Jews spoke Yiddish. Finding prewar language incapable of describing the imprisonment, death, and dehumanization of the Shoah, prisoners added or reinvented thousands of Yiddish words and phrases to describe their new reality.

“Vu di velt hot nor an ek” (Through an Endless Stretch of Land), by Kadya Molodowsky. Children’s poems in Yiddish and English.