Articles

“Ach, the things a poor tai­lor has lived to see! We live in times when the coats go around mak­ing them­selves.” A review of a recent trans­la­tion of Kul­bak’s Zel­menyan­er.

Oct 11, 2015

Mikhail Kru­tikov calls for the revival the intel­lec­tu­al rela­tions, coor­di­na­tion, and exchange between the dif­fer­ent cor­ners of Yid­dish Studies.

Dec 06, 2015

What is the future of Yid­dish schol­ar­ship? An argu­ment for the poten­tial inno­v­a­tive role for Yid­dish stud­ies with­in the human­i­ties in general.

Dec 07, 2015

An intro­duc­tion to the writ­ings by Hil­lel Zeitlin on the inten­tion­al, neo-Hasidic com­mu­ni­ty he tried to cre­ate in War­saw in the 1920s. 

Mar 08, 2016

What is Yid­dish sci­ence and what does it have to say about the postmodern? 

Mar 13, 2016

In this peer-reviewed arti­cle, Adi Mahalel fol­lows Peret­z’s search, through new lit­er­ary styles, for new forms of rev­o­lu­tion­ary politics.

May 22, 2016

In this peer-reviewed arti­cle, David Roskies explores Peret­z’s fond­ness for dia­logue to dis­cov­er the sound cham­ber of Pol­ish Jewry.

May 22, 2016

Leyz­er Burko reviews Alexan­der Bei­der’s recent mon­u­men­tal vol­ume on the ori­gins of Yid­dish dialects.

Jun 05, 2016

Bashe­vis Singer com­ments on his nar­ra­tor com­ment­ing on his char­ac­ters — and David Stromberg untan­gles the polypho­ny of the Nobel Prize win­ner’s fic­tion­al world.

Jun 13, 2016

What can Opatoshu’s con­tro­ver­sial sto­ry about a lynch­ing tell us about the com­plex Jew­ish encounter with Amer­i­can cul­ture and the poten­tial loss of an eth­i­cal tradition.

Jun 21, 2016