Zackary Sholem Berger

May 16, 2024 | forward.com | Zackary Sholem Berger

For the first time in history, every issue of the Yiddish literary magazine Sovetish heymland (Soviet Homeland) is in the process of being digitized. The periodical ran from 1961 to 1991, but so far only editions published between 1961 to 1963 have been uploaded to the internet. Thanks to a new initiative, the rest of the magazine will be digitized by the end of 2024.

May 16, 2024 | flipboard.com | Zackary Sholem Berger

For the first time in history, every issue of the Yiddish literary magazine Sovetish heymland (Soviet Homeland) is in the process of being …

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.

Mar 3, 2023 | ingeveb.org | Zackary Sholem Berger

On November 20-21 in New York, over the course of two full days, leading academics, artists, creatives, and activists in the Yiddish world gave talks honoring the fifteenth yortsayt of the linguist, philologist, and language pedagogue Dr. Mordkhe Schaechter. Two overarching questions were repeated throughout these speeches, as well as in the conversations that followed. The first: How can we define the field of Yiddish Studies?