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I’m Miriam Borden, a scholar and researcher of Yiddish Studies specialising specializing in Ashkenazi Jewish literature, folklore, and post-Holocaust material culture.

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More posters like this, pls. Ad in Der Groyser Kundes for satirist Moyshe Nadir’s annual “lakhnakht” (laugh-night), an evening full of entertainment held at the Manhattan Opera House. March 1, 1925. Art by Zuni Maud.
Unreal typography on this worn cover of Di ferte strune [The Fourth String], Shike Driz’s third collection of poetry. Appeared in Moscow in 1969. #bookstagram #yiddishbooks #typography #jewishbooks
Over the moon to be included in this special issue of the Canadian Jewish Studies journal! Thank you to everyone at CJS for your generosity and collaboration. I’ve been told that my article—on kids’ doodles in the margins of midcent
Name this lobby floor — GO! Hint: it’s a one-and-only kind of thing.
A freylekhn purim! / !אַ פֿריילעכן פּורים 🍷🎭🎉 From Yidishe Kinder Alef, 1971 edition with (gasp!) colors! Okay, just one color. But red is 🔥 so they knew what they were doing. 🔥🔥🔥 #purim #yiddish #yiddishbooks #jewishbooks #bookstagram
Purim poems from Yidishe kinder alef (Workmen’s Circle, 1959). 🎉🎭🍷 #yiddish #yiddishbooks #jewishbooks #purim
Alef / א is for Achashverosh! Historiated initials have my whole heart, hbu? 🍷🎉 🎭 From Yidishe kinder alef, the 1971 edition (Workmen’s Circle Education Department, New York). #jewishbooks #yiddishbooks #purim
Getting lost in the canary-yellow cityscape. 🌇 Leyb Kvitko, “Gerangl” (Struggle), Kharkov: Tsentral farlag, 1929.
🔔 ARCHIVE ALERT 🔔 Nothing to see here, just a quick pop by Toronto Workmen’s Circle HQ to see some archival stuff, like this pamphlet advertising all the educational offerings of 1926 across three different campuses around town. Language, J
ABI = ALWAYS BE ICONIC. Title page of the iconic 1928 anthology of Yiddish poetry by women, “Dikhterins antologye,” edited by Ezra Korman and published by L.M. Shteyn in Chicago. Iconic typography, iconic content. Korman understood the

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