Articles
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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Review
Review of On The Landing: Stories by Yenta Mash translated by Ellen Cassedy
Allison Schachter
Jun 24, 2019
Review
Review of Queer Expectations: A Genealogy of Jewish Women's Poetry by Zohar Weiman-Kelman
Shoshana Olidort
Jun 13, 2019
Review
Charlie, [gesturing to Fascist General Franco on screen] fucking swine isn’t he?
William Pimlott
William Pimlott reviews Gill Tofell’s Jews, Cinema and Public Life in Interwar Britain and Alan Dein’s Music is the most beautiful language in the World: Yiddisher Jazz in London’s East End 1920s-1950s.
May 23, 2019
Review
What Does Justice Mean, Decades Later?: Review of Ida Fink’s Der tish in Paris
Ri J. Turner
Ri Turner reviews the World Premiere of Ida Fink’s Der tish in Paris.
May 09, 2019
Review
Review of The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis by David Fishman
Julia Riegel
May 06, 2019
Article
The Anarchist Sage/Der Goen Anarkhist: Rabbi Yankev-Meir Zalkind and Religious Genealogies of Anarchism
Anna Elena Torres
How can a political philosophy of anarchism emerge from Talmud study? Yankev Meir Zalkind, early twentieth-century Yiddishist, shows our readers how.
Feb 27, 2019
Article
Yokhed ve-tsiber: Individual Expression and Communal Responsibility in a Yiddish Droshe by Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik
Ariel Evan Mayse
Scholarship on Soloveitchik’s teachings has tended to focus exclusively on his Hebrew or English works rather than his Yiddish writings, but the present essay traces Soloveitchik’s style and exploring the nuances of intellectual legacy through the lens of an important Yiddish homily, a little-studied but critical essay called “Yokhed ve-tsiber” (“The Individual and the Collective”), an undated work was first delivered as a droshe (sermon) on his father’s yortsayt.
Feb 11, 2019
Article
A Guide to the Ze’enah U-Re’enah: Correcting Some Misconceptions
Morris Faierstein
The most popular Yiddish book ever published gets its story right.
Feb 11, 2019