By Miriam Udel, Rifkind Fellow 2024-2025 & Member of the CJH Academic Advisory Council What Shall We Tell the Children? As I demonstrate in my critical study Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children’s Literature, the Yiddish children’s literary canon that burgeoned on the secularist left during the first half of the twentieth century forms a rich archive for revisiting the anxieties and ideas that…
By Alona Bach, Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Short-Term Graduate Public History Fellow Electrical Engineering in Yiddish: The Vilna Technicum (and Beyond) “Up to this point, there has not been a single book about electricity in Yiddish, aside from a few small pamphlets,” declared the engineer Israel Okun in January 1922. It was a bold, frank introduction to his new Yiddish translation of a German textbook about…
Xavier High School Students Visit Center for Jewish History This blog post originally appeared in the Xavier ENews, used with permission. On April 21, two sections of the senior World Religions elective visited the Center for Jewish History, located at 15 West 16th Street—right across the street from Xavier. All students received two tours of the museum: one tour on Jewish identity across modern…
