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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Article
Holocaust Literature and Autorevision: Shaye Shpigl’s Ghetto Stories Written in, and Rewritten after, the Lodz Ghetto
Shpigl’s Yiddish-Yiddish autorevisions powerfully exemplify an author’s felt compulsion to rewrite wartime writings from a postwar perspective even when no change of language — no literal translation — was involved.
Mar 14, 2023
Review
Review of Anne-Christin Klotz's Gemeinsam gegen Deutschland
In this study of the Jewish press in Poland, Anne-Christin Klotz identifies Polish Jewry, and specifically local Yiddish writers and journalists, as central to understanding the Nazi threat in the 1930s.
Mar 21, 2023
Review
Treating Emotions in a Tempest: Review of Amy Simon’s Emotions in Yiddish Ghetto Diaries
Amy Simon deploys empathic reading to interpret the range of emotions contained in Yiddish diaries written in the ghettos of Warsaw, Lodz, and Vilna.
Dec 04, 2023
Review
Review of Warsaw Testament by Rokhl Auerbach, trans. Kassow
This is a watershed entry into the English canon of Holocaust testimony.
Jun 06, 2024
Review
Review of Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish by Hannah Pollin-Galay
There is a well-known Yiddish proverb that argues Verter zol men vegn un nit tseyln (Words should be weighed and not counted). But when one pays attention to the weight of words in the way Hannah Pollin-Galay does, every word counts.
Feb 18, 2025
