Blogs
Miriam Libhaber
Our featured painter of the month is Miriam Libhaber. You can view her Yiddishland exhibit at UC San Diego Hillel in La Jolla. Discover how her Yiddishkeit roots and Mexican heritage shaped her unique artistic voice…. Read more
Yiddish, Ladino (Judeo-Spanish), and Claudia Sheinbaum
Recently, we received the news about Mexico’s new president being elected, Claudia Sheinbaum. With this Yiddish-sounding name, many are wondering about her family background. Let us bring to your attention a bit about her heritage and the linguistic aspects of her family background…. Read more
What was or what is Yiddishland?
What volunteering for YAAANA and Yiddishland California has taught me is that, while academics argue about the intricacies of the Yiddish language and write brilliant books and dictionaries, the general Jewish American population still, for multiple reasons, is foreign to the Yiddish past of their ancestors…. Read more
“The City without Jews” – Facebook without Jews? Personal Reflections from Mexican Exile
Time to get serious, folks, and not num things down so much. I feel blessed to be writing this from Mexico where Yiddishland in exile is enjoying a relatively peaceful existence… Yiddishland’s friends and Jewish institutions back in the United States report to us countless incidents of antisemitism…. Read more