The Yom Kippur prayer service is about to begin and all the townspeople are there. But who’s watching the babies?

This appeared in a book of Yiddish holiday stories by the children's author Levin Kipnis, published in 1961

Emory University Professor Miriam Udel, PhD ’08, reflects on the power of children’s literature in the modern project of Jewish cultural survival, her passion for language, and a defining lecture…

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In a word, Yiddish children’s literature, per Udel, has a long history, a series of stormy futures past, and a fraught yet fruitful and ongoing aftermath. Throu