LA JOLLA, California — Janet Alper, poet, author and educator, brought the Yiddish poet, Itshe Slutsky (1912-1944), to the ...

For the Jews of northern Europe, the year 1096 brought a brutal spring. Crusaders on their way to Jerusalem attacked Jewish communities throughout the Rhineland. It was then, says Susan L. Einbinder, ...

Menachem Rosensaft was born within walking distance of a place that was conceived for death and where his mother barely survived. The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany. The international ...

The Jewish Community Center of Greater Columbus and Gramercy Books will host a National Poetry Month program featuring the poetry troupe Elixir of Voice. Elixir of Voice is composed of four ...

INTERNATIONAL: On Sept. 1, local poet Jessica Jacobs launched the nonprofit Yetzirah, the first literary organization in the U.S. for Jewish poets. Now, she is preparing to bring poets from around the ...

More than 50 Jewish poets gathered earlier this summer for the first-ever Yetzirah Poetry Conference, part of a new initiative to create a “hearth” for Jewish poetry. Over the past few months, ...

She was born in Brooklyn and educated at Harvard, where she earned a doctorate in history and then taught history, literature and writing. Her short story collection, “Quiet Americans,” was honored ...

Sarah Stern stumbled upon what would become the title of her new book of poetry while visiting Germany for the first time in 2014, and traveling to Rexingen, the town where her mother was born. Her ...

A "crown jewel" of this month's Yiddish New York Festival is sure to be the special pre-launch event for upcoming book, JEWels - Teasing Out the Poetry in Jewish Humor and Storytelling. Presented by ...

Not one poem in 10,000 written by Jewish authors has been lenient toward the subject of war, according to Philip M. Raskb, noted Jewish poet and Zionist, who arrived here today to assist the local ...