J-Pride

In this month’s Yiddish Cultural Cafe, writer and translator Reyzl Grace will introduce participants to the history and cultural significance of Yiddish-language poetry in expressing, contesting, and reinventing Ashkenazi Jewish identity. Special attention will be paid to women, LGBTQ, and other marginalized poets whose work opens continuing vectors of joy and resistance into the challenges […]

In this month’s Yiddish Cultural Café, writer and translator Reyzl Grace will share insights into her own practice as a contemporary poet working in Yiddish. Drawing on her background in history and linguistics, she will show how her poetry benefits from the unique characteristics of the language to explore and express her experience as a […]