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Yiddish authors

Vladka Meed’s false identification card, issued in the name of Stanisława Wąchalska, 1943. (Courtesy, Benjamin Meed/ United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
April 14, 2026, 8:48 am
Avenging angel risked her life to try to save Warsaw’s Jews — and lived to write about it
Updated English translation of Vladka Meed’s 1948 Yiddish memoir, ‘On Both Sides of the Wall,’ breathes new life into her experiences with the Jewish resistance against the Nazis
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Chaim Grade’s 'Sons and Daughters' was originally serialized in the 1960s and '70s, in New York–based Yiddish newspapers. (YIVO; Alfred. A. Knopf via JTA)
April 7, 2025, 1:16 am
How Yiddish writer Chaim Grade’s last novel was rescued and wrestled into print
The editors discuss how a previously lost decades-old manuscript was found and pieced together. It’s being called ‘probably the last great Yiddish novel’
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Illustrative: Leaders of the New York-based YIVO open crates of salvaged YIVO treasures from Europe, photographed in New Jersey, 1947. (Courtesy of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research)
March 21, 2025, 4:17 pm
Dirty jokes and sacred texts: YIVO marks 100 years of preserving Yiddish culture
Artifacts from 1,000 years of Ashkenazi Jewish life including literary transcripts, Herzl’s diary, everyday notes and children’s scrawls connect prewar Jews with generations to come
By Cathryn J. Prince
Chaim Grade and his wife Inna Hecker Grade, shown in the United States in 1978. The two met in Moscow in 1945. (YIVO Institute for Jewish Research via JTA)
February 26, 2023, 2:17 am
Writer Chaim Grade’s archive digitized: A Yiddish treasure with a dramatic backstory
YIVO Institute and National Library of Israel make renowned author’s papers available online after they were locked away by his widow for decades, inaccessible to researchers
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
This is an October 10, 1978 photo of Nobel-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer at home in his Miami Beach apartment. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
June 9, 2022, 4:18 am
Long-dead author Isaac Bashevis Singer wanted you to see these unearthed essays
‘Old Truths and New Cliches’ is made up almost entirely of works previously unpublished in English, handpicked by the Nobel laureate and edited by scholar David Stromberg
By Yaakov Schwartz
Author Isaac Bashevis Singer poses for a portrait outside the S. Rabinowitz Hebrew Book Store on New York's Lower East Side in 1968. (David Attie/Getty Images/ via JTA/ SUE)
June 9, 2021, 10:25 pm
How Wikipedia warriors made ‘Polish writer’ Isaac Bashevis Singer Jewish again
It takes a global village to unerase the great Yiddish-language writer’s religious/ethnic identity on the ‘democratized’ online encyclopedia
By Asaf Shalev
Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer, in his Miami Beach apartment, October 10, 1978. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
June 5, 2021, 7:29 am
1952 prayer by Bashevis Singer found scrawled on rent slip in unpublished trove
Unseen collection comes out next spring; writer and scholar David Stromberg discusses the Nobel laureate’s religious ambivalence, and why his liturgical Hebrew plea resonates today
By Yaakov Schwartz
Postwar Yiddish writer Chava Rosenfarb. (Courtesy National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene)
April 19, 2021, 3:19 am
NY Yiddish theater festival spotlights previously unheralded women writers
The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene kicks off a run dedicated to female playwrights with renowned Chava Rosenfarb’s ‘The Bird of the Ghetto,’ running April 19-22
By Jordan Hoffman
Clockwise, from right: 'Honey on the Page' by Miriam Udel (courtesy); 'Labzik: Stories of a Clever Pup,' by Khaver Paver (NYU Press/ via New York Jewish Week); author Miriam Udel (Shulamit Seidler-Feller/via New York Jewish Week); background: Yiddish 'King Lear' poster (flickr/CC-SA-2.0/ Rachel-Esther)
November 2, 2020, 4:23 am
New collection of Yiddish kids’ stories comes out from under shadow of Holocaust
In ‘Honey on the Page,’ Atlanta scholar Miriam Udel uncovers in the YIVO archives 50 stories and poems for a young audience that had largely disappeared by the end of World War II
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Abraham Sutzkever, right, before World War II in Vilnius, Lithuania. (Courtesy/via JTA)
July 27, 2019, 6:22 am
How poetry literally saved the life of a famed Yiddish writer
In 1944, Avraham Sutzkever and his wife Freydke had to walk through a minefield to reach the plane that would take them to freedom. They stepped to the rhythm of poetic meter
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Jacob Dinezon's dramatic Yiddish romance novel 'The Dark Young Man' was a surprise success in 1877. (Courtesy of the Jewish Storyteller Press/via JTA)
April 8, 2019, 6:02 am
A forgotten hit 1877 Yiddish romance novel has just been translated to English
Yankev Dinezon’s ‘The Dark Young Man’ sold 200,000 copies, catapulted him to fame, and made him a mentor to the top writers of his day. Then he fell into obscurity — until now
By Penny Schwartz
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