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
Judgment
Boris Dralyuk
In time for the one hundredth anniversary of the October revolution, Dovid Bergelson’s novel Mides-hadin is out in a new translation by Harriet Murav and Sasha Senderovich.
Nov 07, 2017
Review
Coordinated Movement?: Vladimir Jabotinsky and Polish Jewish Youth
Sarah Ellen Zarrow
Sarah Ellen Zarrow on language politics in Jabotinzky’s Revisionist Zionism
Oct 25, 2017
Review
“Falsche Juden”: A Study of Performative Identities in German Literature
Joela Jacobs
Nike Thurn’s recent book explores how Jewishness is performed in German literature.
Oct 16, 2017
Review
“The Worst Good Idea Ever”? The Birobidzhan Project and Soviet Jewish Culture
Natalie Belsky
Masha Gessen’s new book explores the history of the Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobidzhan through the story of David Bergelson and Simon Dubnow, whose thought and writing influenced its development.
Jun 26, 2017
Review
Birnbaum and the Distortions of Polemic
Ben Sadock
A review of the new edition of S. A. Birnbaum’s Yiddish: A Survey and a Grammar
Jun 15, 2017
Review
Claudia Rosenzweig's Bovo d’Antona by Elye Bokher. A Yiddish Romance: A Critical Edition with Commentary
Oren Roman
A review of Claudia Rosenzweig’s new critical edition of the bove-bukh.
May 25, 2017
Article
A Poetic Paradox: Gender and Self in Anna Margolin’s Mary Cycle
Melissa Weininger
Weininger analyzes Anna Margolin’s cycle of poems entitled “Mary,” exploring her use of Christological themes and figures and the expression of identity and self-definition in the poems.
May 18, 2017
Review
Strangers in Berlin by Rachel Seelig
Sunny Yudkoff
Seelig’s new book explores the city of Berlin during the Weimar period as a “transit station” for Jewish literature written in German, Yiddish, and Hebrew.
Apr 26, 2017
Review
The Mutable Monster: A Review of Maya Barzilai’s Golem: Modern Wars and Their Monsters
Simchi Cohen
Mar 22, 2017
Review
The Marriage Plot
Dory Fox
Naomi Seidman’s new book examines the Ashkenazi Jewish experience of modernization through the representation of changing ideas about love and sexuality in literature.
Mar 02, 2017