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
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
Article
New Yiddish Film and the Transvernacular
Rebecca Margolis
The study of Yiddish cinema gets updated for the twenty-first century, Margolis explores how the language is being used in film in the last decade.
Dec 18, 2016
Review
Nothing Backwards about the Forward's New Anthology
Eileen Pollack
The new anthology of stories published in The Forward has more than a few gems, Eileen Pollack reviews.
Nov 30, 2016
Review
Niemandssprache: A Biography of Itzik Manger
Jenna Ingalls
A review of Efrat Gal-Ed’s new biography of Itzik Manger.
Oct 31, 2016
Review
Miriam Udel’s Never Better! The Modern Jewish Picaresque
Matthew Johnson
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.
Oct 19, 2016
Review
Jerold C. Frakes: Early Yiddish Epic
Rachel Wamsley
Jerold Frakes’s recent English anthology makes early Yiddish epic accessible to a broad audience for the first time.
Oct 05, 2016
Review
Translingualism Today: A Review of Naomi Brenner’s Lingering Bilingualism
Yaakov Herskovitz and Shachar Pinsker
Naomi Brenner’s new book complicates the story of the Hebrew-Yiddish “language wars” and argues that Jewish translingualism continues well into the 20th century.
Sep 18, 2016
Review
Immigrants Against the State
Samuel Hayim Brody
A review of Kenyon Zimmer’s recently published book, Immigrants Against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America.
Sep 05, 2016