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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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Der Alter Tevye Lebt!: Speech and Communication

Sholem Ale­ichem and Tevye depend on one anoth­er — for Wisse, their con­ver­sa­tions form a minia­ture Jew­ish ter­ri­to­ry where togeth­er they reassert moral control.

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Nit dos dorf, nit di kretshme: Speaking About Jewish Taverns in the Works of Sholem Aleichem

The tav­ern is a fix­ture of the shtetl uni­verse — but it also exists on the mar­gins, where, for Sholem Ale­ichem, you can also find the chaos of modernity.

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Sholem Aleichem's Stempenyu: Speaking through Song

How does one write about romance in Yid­dish? Sholem Aleichem’s 1888 nov­el Stem­penyu pos­es this ques­tion through an exam­i­na­tion of the gen­dered lim­i­ta­tions on Jew­ish lit­er­ary love.

Review

Miriam Udel’s Never Better! The Modern Jewish Picaresque

Miri­am Udel’s new book trav­els with the genre of the picaresque from the shtetl to the USA to the USSR and brings it into the twen­ti­eth century.

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