David Mazower

Skip to main content Jewish Book Month, the founding program of Jewish Book Council, is in its 100th year! Review By – December 22, 2025 iddish: A Global Culture is a full-color catalog of the permanent exhibition of the same name at the Yiddish Book Center. The author and Chief Curator of the center, David Mazower, organizes this hefty, well-designed volume around fifteen themes, some of which are bestsellers, women’s voices, Modernism, the Holocaust, music, typewriters, and celebrities.

SHOLEM ASCH ES GOT fun nekome (God of Vengeance) tiene una de las historias más notables de cualquier drama moderno. Un resumen de Twitter de su historial de producción diría algo como esto: “admirado, traducido, parodiado, criticado, prohibido, procesado, retirado, olvidado, revivido, celebrado”. La puesta en escena actual de New Yiddish Rep brinda al público de Nueva York una rara oportunidad de escuchar la obra en el yiddish original de Asch.

I bought this photograph on eBay, intrigued by the combination of the Cairo photographer’s mark and the Yiddish language banner. The members of the Cairo Yiddish Dramatic Circle, 1916. Who are these smartly-dressed young men and women? And why are they all wearing white ribbons? We can sense a certain earnestness and a strong sense of pride in their carefully posed ranks. But with no names, dates or inscription on the back on the photo, what can we learn from it?