Isabel Frey
Yiddish revolutionary music to sing at your next protest.
Three Yiddish Songs to Start a Revolution
Tag: yiddish
A Lighthearted Romp, Peppered with Yiddishisms
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Novelist Jane L. Rosen, author of the lighthearted romp, A Shoe Story chats with Lilith’s Yona Zeldis McDonough about what happens when we are offered a second chance.
Poetry: History
Sandra Reva Goldberg
A Yiddish-inflected expression of pride with rich wisdom and “humor to spare.”
Jennifer Anne Moses on Jewish Storytelling
By Yona Zeldis McDonough
“As children, all four of us attended a private day school modeled on the English public school, where we wore uniforms, danced around the Maypole, recited the Lord’s Prayer, and belted out the greatest hits of the Anglo-Saxon playbook…”
A New Translation of a Yiddish Comic Gem
Yona Zeldis McDonough
A Yiddish novelist who is brazen and frank about the unequal power dynamics between men and women in intimate relationships.
There Was More to My Buba Than Her Bad Matzoh Balls
Kyla Kupferstein
Everyone who made up what would have been my Jewish family was lost in the War. No one taught my Buba to cook.
How I Turned My Father’s Yiddish Book Into a Graphic Novel
Trina Robbins
Trina Robbins went from avoiding the Jewish aspects of her parents to transforming her father’s book about shtetl life into a graphic novel.