Yankee Yiddish

This chapter reviews the book Lingering Bilingualism: Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures in Contact (2016), by Naomi Brenner. In Lingering Bilingualism, Brenner tells the story ...

This chapter examines the contexts and discourse surrounding the seven lynchings that occurred in Michigan in the latter decades of the nineteenth century. The relative infrequency...

Songwriters often use lyrics to describe the current events and social attitudes of a particular period or people. An examination of America's popular songs—and the stories behind ...

This chapter focuses on the Sephardic Jews who settled in the Midwest. Wherever the Sephardi settled in the Heartland, the local press often noted their presence and customs, becau...

Introduces an English-speaking audience to the the most important songs of Mordechai Gebirtig, a major Yiddish poet and composer who was killed during the Holocaust....