28/04/2026
YIDISHLAND #30 – OUT NOW!
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This issue opens with an article by the youngest member of our editorial board, David Omar Cohen, in which he discusses the need to preserve the good level of Yiddish literary style under current conditions, when a growing portion of Yiddish literary figures are people who have not acquired the language in their childhood. A striking example of their arrival in our literature is the first book of poems by Katerina Kuznetsova, a volume of critique of which appears in this issue. Contemporary Yiddish poetry is represented by new poems by Hillel Kazovsky, Jake Schneider, Boris Karloff, Velvl Chernin and David Omar Cohen. In addition, our readers will find poems by the great Ukrainian poet Vasyl Stus (1938–1985) and by contemporary Hebrew poetess Rivka Miriam translated into Yiddish. We are publishing a chapter from the memoirs of Shmuel Atzmon. This book, largely devoted to Yiddish theater, was published in Hebrew. From now on, at least one chapter of it will also be available in the author׳s native language. In the field of belles-lettres we offer you a new chapter from the novel ״Tik-Tok״ by Michael Felzenbaum, a story by Velvl Chernin and the completion of the publication of the stories of Gedaliah Frenkel (1899–1943) prepared by David Omar Cohen. Literary scholar Yael Levy publishes in this issue an article on the Yiddish writer Rosa Palatnik, which was presented as a referat at the 19th Congress of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. Binyamin Hunyadi deals in his review with the play ״Sidi Tal״. It was performed partially in Yiddish by the German Theater of the Romanian city of Timișoara. Our regular sections continue: ״Manifestos of the Jewish Avant-Garde״, ״New Books״, ״A New Song״, ״For Children and Grandchildren״ (you will find in it poems by Michael Layvand) and ״Materials for a Lexicon of Yiddish Literature in the 21st Century״.
Yidishland is a printed literary journal with prose, poetry and literary criticism from the world’s leading Yiddish writers as well as talented newcomers. Each issue contains ~100 pages in A4 format.
