'Returning': Exploring assimilation and the search for Jewish belonging - review

Returning concludes with Nicholas’s rejection of a “washed-out Reform Judaism and embrace of a somewhat idiosyncratic of ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

At YIVO, an unfinished Yiddish dictionary gets the last word — as opera

To mark its centenary, YIVO stages a work about the competing visions for a monumental, and aborted, reference work about the language of Eastern Europe’s Jews. In the hallways of New York’s YIVO ...
Middle East EyeOpinion

She spent 7 years recovering the Jewish history Zionism tried to erase | Molly Crabapple

Hundreds of people are coming to my events, many of them Jewish, and they tell me I gave them their ancestors back' Molly ...
The Forward

70 Eastern European Jewish Cemeteries Preserved

— A German-funded pilot program for protecting Eastern European Jewish cemeteries has helped preserve at least 70 graveyards since 2015, the effort’s initiators told Council of Europe delegates. The ...
Brandeis University

Yiddish and East European Jewish Literature and Culture

The Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies offers undergraduates the opportunity to earn a minor in Yiddish and East European Jewish Culture. The broad objective for the minor is for students ...
WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR

A chat with the head of JIMENA: Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa

Sarah Levin, executive director of JIMENA, is a guest lecturer Wednesday, May 27 at the Jewish Museum of Milwaukee.