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
Translated and Improved: Ilan Stavans’ On Self-Translation: Meditations on Language
Yaakov Herskovitz
Oct 21, 2019
Review
Review of A Jewish Refugee in New York: Rivke Zilberg’s Journal by Kadya Molodovsky, Translated by Anita Norich
Rachel Rubinstein
Oct 06, 2019
Article
Anticolonial Orientalism: Perets Hirshbeyn’s Indian Travelogue
Mariusz Kałczewiak
Jul 08, 2019
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