Jessica Kirzane

2 weeks ago | forward.com | Jessica Kirzane

By Jessica Kirzane April 9, 2025Last month's release of Chaim Grade's novel Sons and Daughters in English translation has drawn wide praise from a variety of newspapers, including the New York Times. The book is a landmark publication, the last novel of the famed Vilna-born Yiddish author whose novel "Rabbis and Wives" was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1983. Sons and Daughters was first published in Yiddish in weekly installments at the newspaper Tog-Morgn Zhurnal, from 1965 until 1976.

Dec 5, 2024 | forward.com | Jessica Kirzane

Harvard's denial of tenure earlier this year for its sole tenure-track Yiddish professor damages not only the university's Yiddish and Jewish studies programs, but also its scholarly reputation overall. The professor, Saul Noam Zaritt, is a respected scholar whose work shows how Yiddish literature moves within global publishing markets, and how Yiddish writing mediates between and traverses cultures.

Aug 12, 2024 | jewishcurrents.org | Josh Parshall |Jessica Kirzane

The excerpt below comes from a history of Branch 692 of the left-wing Yiddish fraternal organization Workers Circle (also known as the Workmen’s Circle, and in Yiddish as der Arbeter Ring).

Oct 12, 2023 | ingeveb.org | Zackary Sholem Berger |David Forman |Jessica Kirzane |A. Z. Foreman

Texts & Translation New Yiddish Poetry from the Israel-Gaza War CITETHIS Image: ​“Death with a Woman in His Lap”(Tod mit Frau in Schoss, 1921), a wood­cut by Käthe Kollwitz. INTRODUCTION Four months have passed since the Hamas attacks of Octo­ber 7th and the start of the war in Gaza. As edi­tors and schol­ars of Yid­dish Stud­ies, we have been anguished by the dev­as­ta­tion, loss and trau­ma of this con­flict.

Nov 17, 2022 | yiddishbookcenter.org | Jessica Kirzane