Montreal’s Yiddish literary heritage celebrated in a podcast from Blue Met
Listeners are taken through the streets where writers once thrived.
Shternshis: When Jewish humour divides us
“What do we do today, when political borders and hundreds of years of separate histories have divided Jewish people into groups that can laugh at each other, but not with each other?”
Shternshis: There’s no YIVO without its librarians
New York-based YIVO Institute for Jewish Research fired all four of its librarians, citing a budget deficit. Anna Shternshis writes about the tragic loss.
Yiddish institute YIVO, facing budget shortfall, lays off its library staff
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, which preserves and promotes the study of Eastern European and Yiddish culture, has laid off four librarians to make up for a budget shortfall.
