People, Projects Resources in Yiddishland

Here are LINKS for more information on people, projects and resources committed to complicating the history and conversation in Yiddishland.

Some blur the lines between artist, activist, historian, scholar, tour guide, witness.

If you’d like to suggest someone to add to this list, please send me an email.

YIDDISHKAYT, Los Angeles-based but frequent travelers to Yiddishland, literally and imaginatively

Multi-ethnic art space situated in re-purposed Synagogue and Yeshiva complex

TOMEK WISNIEWSKI, author, activist, local historian, archivist, filmmaker, space maker for art / memory / history, asker of questions

GALLERY Y, Minsk, Belarus

Gallery, cafe, bookstore committed to contemporary art in Belarus

FESTIVALT, Kraków, Poland

new performance and visual art festival celebrating and investigating “the complexities of the contemporary Polish Jewish landscape.”