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Essay My Sioux-kot, Part II Earlier this week, Emily Bowen Cohen introduced the conflict she felt between her American Indian and Jewish identities during the protests at Standing Rock, North… Emily Bowen Cohen December 21, 2016
Essay My Sioux-kot, Part I Emily Bowen Cohen’s recent mini-comic An American Indian Guide to the Day of Atonement recounts her reunion with her long-lost Native American family and her… Emily Bowen Cohen December 19, 2016
Essay “Her Green Days”: Nature in the Yiddish Narrative Earlier this week Ellen Cassedy and Yermiyahu Ahron Taub wrote about their discovery of the Elena Ferrante of Yiddish literature and her transgressive fiction… Ellen Cassedy December 16, 2016
Essay Hiding in Plain Sight: A Private Yet Candid Yiddish Writer Earlier this week Ellen Cassedy and Yermiyahu Ahron Taub wrote about their discovery of Blume Lempel’s transgressive Yiddish fiction, now translated into English as… Ellen Cassedy, Yermiyahu Ahron Taub December 14, 2016
Essay Oedipus — in Brooklyn? And in Yiddish? Ellen Cassedy and Yermiyahu Ahron Taub received the Yiddish Book Center’s 2012 Translation Prize for their work on the fiction of Blume Lempel, now compiled into the book… Ellen Cassedy December 12, 2016
Essay 12 Historic Forverts Front Pages Ezra Glinter is the editor of the new story anthology Have I Got a Story for You: More Than a Century of Fiction from The Forward. With the official… Ezra Glinter December 5, 2016
