What is the Yiddish Orthodox press saying about October 7 and the war in Gaza?

Since October 7, the enlistment of young Haredim, ultra-Orthodox Jews, in the Israeli army is no longer taboo. Several rabbis and heads of religious schools...

By Macha Fogel

“Birobidjan is in my veins” – Interview with Ber Kotlerman

Ber Kotlerman was born in Irkutsk, Soviet Union, in 1971. He grew up in Birobidjan—the “autonomous Jewish region” founded in May 1934 at the edge...

By Macha Fogel

About Ady Walter’s film ‘Shttl’

Ady Walter's film Shttl, shot in Yiddish and in Ukraine, will be released in the coming months. It offers an opportunity to reflect on Ukrainian...

By Macha Fogel

What Mode of Belonging Does Yiddish Enable?

In her first column for K., Macha Fogel recounted some news from today's flourishing Yiddish Hasidic press. In this second piece, she asks heself what...

By Macha Fogel

Dispatches from Yiddishland: Tales of the American Hasidim. 

It is no secret that Yiddish is a language without a country. At least, that's how it's spoken of, anyway, and then as a murdered,...

By Macha Fogel