Why do so many authors of news articles about the Yiddishist world get it wrong? This question has been plaguing Yiddish cultural critic Rokhl Kafrissen for years. “There is a certain narrative that ...
Allen Lewis Rickman and Yelena Shmulenson smile a lot more in real life than they did as husband and wife Velvel and Dora in the shtetl prologue to the Coen Brothers’ film “A Serious Man.” For that, ...