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The written Hebrew agadah [lore and legends transmitted in rabbinic texts] is the primary literary form that was dominant for several centuries in the world of unbounded folk and individual creation…
The problem concerning the establishment of a Higher School for Jewish studies, which was recently raised by the Society for the Promotion of Culture Among the Jews of Russia (OPE), should be…
The problem of creating a body of translated literature in Yiddish is very important and must be solved systematically. This serves the interests of our original [Yiddish] literature best.
[I will…
We live in a time of Sturm und Drang [storm and stress]. Every day brings new disappointments and new hopes. Old forms lose their value, no new ones are being created. And the synthetic gaze of…
In his book Ha-metsaref [The Purifier], vol. II §182, Rabbi Moses Kunitz wrote:
The term am ha-arets [lit., “People of the Land,” often meaning boors] was applied to people of various dispositions…