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
Surreptitious Desires and Fantasy Worlds: Review of Golan Y. Moskowitz's Wild Visionary: Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context
In Golan Y. Moskowitz’s engrossing Wild Visionary: Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context, he tells of the fantasy worlds that the beloved children’s book writer and illustrator created over his lifetime, initially as a form of self-preservation, a way of surviving a world hostile to overt displays of queerness and Jewishness, and eventually — and rebelliously — as a form of pleasure and self-expression.
Oct 24, 2021
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Review of Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine by Amelia M. Glaser
Oct 21, 2021
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Stranger in a Strange Land? A Review of Rachel Rojanski’s Yiddish in Israel
Rojanski’s work provides a comprehensive picture of the events and personalities that chart the history of Yiddish in Israel.
Oct 20, 2021
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Review of Transatlantic Russian Jewishness by Gennady Estraikh
Estraikh paints a vibrant picture of Yiddish socialism’s fluidity and its many tendencies as it responded to the tensions and traumas of the twentieth century.
Oct 12, 2021
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Review of Living with Hate in American Politics and Religion by Jeffrey Israel
Jeffrey Israel has written an ambitious, thought-provoking, and impressive book about political love and how it can be achieved through play.
Oct 08, 2021
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Review of Sutzkever Essential Prose, translated by Zackary Sholem Berger
Halff offers a specific and detailed critique of the translation, while also acknowledging that in this book, filled with Sutzkever’s metaphors, imagery, and motifs, “wonders await.”
Jun 23, 2021
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New Resources for Studying Jewish Women's Lives in Early Modern Europe
Two new publications offer rich and engaging material for the further exploration of Jewish life in early modern Europe.
May 24, 2021
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Review of Yiddish: A Biography of a Language by Jeffrey Shandler
Shandler’s biography can be read as a chronicle of expanding notions of folkstimlekhkayt, from the old vos far a yid redt nisht ken yidish (what kind of [Ashkenazi] Jew doesn’t speak Yiddish) standard to the Yiddish being used and developed by cohorts of non-native speakers.
May 21, 2021
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Review of Honey on the Page: A Treasury of Yiddish Children’s Literature, by Miriam Udel
Review of Honey on the Page: A Treasury of Yiddish Children’s Literature, edited and translated by Miriam Udel.
May 19, 2021