Tag: Jewish Cultural History

The text discusses the evolution of Jewish masculinity from historical representations to contemporary expressions, focusing on figures like Leonard Cohen and current male influencers.
"The Gospel According to Chaim" is a new Yiddish-language play based on the true story of Chaim Einspruch, a former Hasidic man who translated the New Testament into Yiddish and encouraged Jews to convert to Christianity during the Holocaust.
"Zhen Yu and the Snake" is a new children's book by Erica Lyons that reimagines a Talmudic tale set in 12th-century Kaifeng, China, where the first Jewish community in China was established.
The article discusses the Naomi Prawer Kadar International Yiddish Summer Program at Tel Aviv University, where the author taught a course on Yiddish modernism.
In the early 1900s, Jews from Eastern Europe immigrated to the US, settling in New York City.
This text is a personal reflection on the challenges faced by a female painter in the art world in the 1970s.
Miriam Karpilove was a prolific Yiddish author known for her serialized novels.
The jewdle, also known as the der Speyerer Judenhund, was originally bred in Jewish communities in the Rhine Valley in the 12th century.
The article discusses a short novel by Sholem Aleichem called Moshkeleh Ganev, which was largely forgotten despite being published in 1903 and serialized in a Warsaw Yiddish daily.
In a debate between Talya Fishman and Haym Soloveitchik regarding Fishman's book "Becoming the People of the Talmud," Fishman defends her multidisciplinary approach aiming to bridge rabbinic scholarship and cultural history despite admitted errors, acknowledging Soloveitchik's corrections promising to address them in future editions.