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The Yiddish Columbus: Critical Counter-History and the Remapping of American Jewish Literature
Rachel Rubinstein
Glantz’s masterwork Kristobal Kolon offers a transnational vision of the Americas that insists—in Yiddish—on its Jewish, Muslim, indigenous and African origins, suggesting a new geography for American Jewish literature that exceeds the boundaries of what we understand the Americas and Jewishness to be.
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