Tag: Yiddish Literature
Yiddish language and literature, with special focus on Prague
For centuries Yiddish was the vernacular of Ashkenazi Jews, and Prague a widely known center of Jewish culture and the Yiddish language. But what is Yiddish? How and where did it arise? What characteristics distinguish...
Perets Markish: Making the Bolshevik Revolution a Jewish One Through Yiddish
And all of a sudden, Markish interrupted in his bass voice that in moments of passion became a heroic tenor: “We shall host a literary event that will makethe whole of Warsaw tremble. On...