The New York Yiddish scene has been kind of quiet lately. That's summer in the city for you; all the cool kids are in Berlin, Krakow or ...

This winter the Jewish Museum mounted a terrific exhibit about the Photo League called Radical Camera. The Photo League (1936-1951) was a...

Like a lot of Yiddish culture in America, the origin of much Yiddish music is now generally so unfamiliar as to be easily dismissed as '...

Presented without comment, our favorite voice of reason and moderation in all things klal yisroel related: “Everyone must act in accord...

Hey! There seems to be a big pile of Yiddish related news items to get outraged about. Not that I'm outraged about Yiddish, but at the i...

OK, so I've been otherwise occupado with things non-bloggy. I will have some very fresh and frisky new content up here, very soon. In t...

You've been waiting for weeks. Three, to be exact. Finally, the video of ' Now What: The Future of New Jewish Culture' (A Town ...

The Jewish Week just published my critique of the Idelsohn Society . Won't you go read it?

(3/15) UPDATE: Willie Loman shall indeed speak Yiddish when the New Yiddish Rep brings their new Yiddish language production of Death of a ...

I can't decide if this asinine post over at Hipster Jew  is worth an entry in my 'Memes of the Yiddish Atlantis' file. Is this s...