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Essays and peer-reviewed scholarship in Yiddish Studies, an interdisciplinary field that engages all aspects of Yiddish cultural production, especially in its relationship to other cultures and languages.

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Article

The Fourth Child

The author reflects on his own expe­ri­ences encoun­ter­ing David Roskies in the 1960s and col­lab­o­rat­ing with him in Holo­caust remem­brance at a very dif­fer­ent time than our present con­text for the mem­o­ry and com­mem­o­ra­tion of the Holocaust.

Review

The Lower East Side as an American Site of Memory

In her work on images of the Low­er East Side, Blair spot­lights the para­dox­es of the neigh­bor­hood’s dynam­ic sta­tus as site of mem­o­ry and of artis­tic exper­i­men­ta­tion and high­lights sto­ries and voic­es often left out of Amer­i­can col­lec­tive memory.

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