L ike many American Jews, I don’t know much about my family history before their arrival in the United States. For one thing, I’m a third ge...

I closed out 2019 by fulfilling a longtime ambition: attending the Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) conference as an invited member of a...

Yiddish  Fiddler  (aka Yiddler) was the unexpected off-Broadway hit of 2019. What else could I do but honor it's January 5th closing wi...

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...

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...

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

(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...

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...

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...

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...