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Friday, December 27, 2019

The Yiddish Decade

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It's almost the end of the 2010s, in case you hadn't heard. Jewish Week is running a decade's end wrap up series and they were k...
Monday, November 11, 2019

Catching Up

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In case you don't follow me on social media, I thought I'd give you an update on what I've been doing. *For the holiday of S...
Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Coming on November 4: Rokhl Oyerbakh, The Bridge Between Wartime and Postwar Testimony

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I wanted to make sure you're all aware of a truly special  conference coming up on November 4th:  Rokhl Oyerbakh, The Bridge Between ...
Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Paul Robeson

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(Go and read my new column on Paul Robeson and Yiddish and then come back and read the rest) Once he was asked why, being so critical o...
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Wednesday, May 22, 2019

The Future of the Past of Yiddish Cinema

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My latest Golden City is up and in honor of this summer's Film Forum retrospective  **, it's all about Yiddish Cinema. In the l...
Wednesday, May 8, 2019

Archival Treasures

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My latest GOLDEN CITY is up and it celebrates the hidden  heroes of the Yiddish world: the archivists. Really, it was just an excuse to go...
Saturday, January 19, 2019

Who Will Write Our History

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Brief post to say I have a think piece up at Tablet about the remarkable new movie Who Will Write Our History . The movie is part dramatiza...
Friday, January 11, 2019

Three Identical Strangers

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I have a new piece up at Hey Alma about one of 2018's most intriguing documentaries, Three Identical Strangers . I found the movie comp...
Tuesday, January 8, 2019

A Very un-Yiddish Scandal

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I'm two-thirds of the way through the new Amazon Prime mini-series A Very English Scandal and let me say, I'm kind of obsessed. I...
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Sunday, December 30, 2018

Unusual Jews

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Happy almost goyish New Year!   (Jump to the bottom for a couple juicy Yiddish events) Despite having a disgusting cold, I just spent a m...
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Rokhl Kafrissen is a journalist, playwright, attorney, and Jewish world gadfly in New York City.
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