Reviews

Nov 18, 2018

Anthony Russell, in collaboration with Veretski Pass (Joshua Horowitz on piano, Cookie Segelstein on fiddle, and Stuart Brotman on cello), intertwines Jewish Eastern Europe folk music and African American spiritual traditions.

Nov 06, 2018

Shachar M. Pinsker’s latest work is a lively examination of the role of cafés as meeting grounds for Jewish writers and thinkers in the modern period of transnational migration, from 1848-1939.

Sep 16, 2018

A comprehensive review of the Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary, including many examples of entries.

Jun 14, 2018

Apr 09, 2018

Mayhill Fowler’s book shines light on the blind spots of national cultural histories of turn of the century Ukraine, following the often uneasy interface between authorities and art institutions.

Mar 26, 2018

This volume, edited and translated by Anna Maja Misiak, is the first edition of Debora Vogel’s work in any language to include all of her prose and poetry.

Mar 06, 2018

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

Sarah Ellen Zarrow on language politics in Jabotinzky’s Revisionist Zionism

Oct 25, 2017

Nike Thurn’s recent book explores how Jewishness is performed in German literature.

Oct 16, 2017