Authors / Jessica Kirzane
Jessica Kirzane is the associate instructional professor of Yiddish at the University of Chicago and the editor-in-chief of In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies. She is a literary translator from Yiddish whose work includes Diary of a Lonely Girl, Judith, and A Provincial Newspaper and Other Stories, all by Miriam Karpilove.
Archival
Workers Circle Branch 692 in Miami Beach
An excerpt from a 1949 chapter history
Josh Parshall August 12, 2024
Fiction
Father of the Whole World
“So it seemed that I was the only man left in the world.”
Elyash January 10, 2020
History
New York’s First-Time Women Voters
A 1918 dispatch from a Yiddish newspaper documents the experiences of women legally voting for the first time.
Miriam Karpilove June 4, 2019
Poetry
Lot’s Wife Speaks
Laura Eve Engel’s debut poetry collection, Things That Go, uses the biblical story to contemplate the act of looking and its ethics in an age of clickable tragedy.
Jessica Kirzane January 2, 2019
