Quint, Alyssa Forward 08-01-2003 In a small ceremony held in 1901 in Imperial Russia, Jewish radicals presented the preeminent Yiddish writer Yitzkhok Leybush Peretz with a tattered volume of his stories. They had used it to send secret messages to one another while...

Berger, Zackary Sholem Forward 06-18-2004 Today there are two different Yiddish literatures: one secular and one chasidic. Despite the differences in their audiences, they share a language, a cultural-religious heritage and a status of almost complete obscurity to most American Jews. Boris...

As of March 15, Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences officially lacked confidence in president Lawrence H. Summers. Fortunately or unfortunately for Mr. Summers, the president has ample private reserves.The rebuke-by a surprise 218-185 vote at last week's faculty meeting-came after Mr. Summers had tried...

In the following essay, Roskies analyses Singer's work in the context of his Yiddish background, focusing particularly on his use of the image of the devil in his writing.

In the following essays, Goldsmith traces the emergence, development, and growth of Yiddish literature around the world.

In the following essay, Seidman explores Eliezer Ben-Yehuda's influence on the polarity of vernacular Hebrew and Yiddish in Europe, aligning the former language with masculinity and the latter with femininity.