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…
On a humid summer’s night in July 1961, thirteen-year-old Ricky Farber and his friends bounced around their suburban neighborhood in Arlington, Virginia. There, they stumbled upon an odd and frightening house draped in massive Nazi battle flags. What happened next would be a source of contention: Farber and…
Between 1942 and 1949, the Union of Russian Jews and President Samuel Chobrutsky of the Moscow Jewish Community helped over 15,000 Jewish families across the United States, Mandate Palestine, and South America locate and exchange letters with…
By the end of the Holocaust, over 1.5 million children were slaughtered at the hands of the Nazi Party and its collaborators. In ghettos, children were often killed by starvation or disease. In concentration camps, the majority were immediately sent to gas chambers or shot along with their families. However,…
The Yiddish press in America got its start in the late 19th century. By the 1910s, publications were flourishing and represented a wide variety of Jewish religious and political perspectives. Newspapers served as critical sites of information, entertainment, and learning. They provided access to local and national news in…
