Daily Podcasts Video Research

Millennial anxieties are the ‘new normal’ in these Yiddish stories

JL;DR SUMMARY Amidst a resurgence of interest in Yiddish literature, Israeli author Shiri Shapira offers a collection of short stories titled "Di Tsukunft" (The Future), exploring the anxieties of millennials through a Yiddish lens. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

JL;DR members get full summaries of all articles in the archive, including this one. Donate & start reading »

Tags

Yiddish LiteratureJewish HistoryDiasporaIsraeli CultureCultural IdentitySocial CommentaryLanguage RevivalHistorical MemoryShiri ShapiraMillennial Anxieties

Places mentioned

Jerusalem, Israel
"The concluding story Future highlights Shapiras turning to Yiddish, which comes to loom so large in her life."
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"A collection of her short stories was recently published by the Tel Aviv publishing house, Leyvik House, with the support of Israels National Authority for Yiddish Culture."
Shuafat, Jerusalem, Palestinian Territories
"Their modern apartment is unharmed, but many buildings in Shuafat, a Palestinian refugee camp in East Jerusalem, are destroyed, and around 700 people are killed."
New York City, New York, United States
"The terror attacks of 9/11 in New York City coincide with the onslaught of terror in her own town:"

Support this source

This item was indexed and curated by Cairo, JL;DR's web crawler.
Cairo Item ID 76178
Cairo Source ID 35
Retrieved 2026-02-25 05:31:15 UTC
Curated 2026-02-25 08:32:52 UTC