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October 23, 2023

Yiddish Modernism’s Bold Birth, and Its Fate

A literary summer in Tel Aviv.

Last summer, David Roskies went to Tel Aviv to teach a course on Yiddish modernism, an experience he describes with infectious enthusiasm in this essay, published in August. If you think the phrase “teaching Yiddish modernism in Tel Aviv” contains three things that don’t go together—think again. (You can learn more about some of the writers discussed here in Ruth Wisse’s podcast series The Stories Jews Tell.)

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