Reviews
Review
Translingualism Today: A Review of Naomi Brenner’s Lingering Bilingualism
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
A review of Kenyon Zimmer’s recently published book, Immigrants Against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America.
Sep 05, 2016
Review
The New Yiddish Dialectology: A Review of Alexander Beider's The Origins of Yiddish Dialects
Leyzer Burko reviews Alexander Beider’s recent monumental volume on the origins of Yiddish dialects.
Jun 05, 2016
Review
“To what might the yard have been compared?”
“Ach, the things a poor tailor has lived to see! We live in times when the coats go around making themselves.” A review of a recent translation of Kulbak’s Zelmenyaner.
Oct 11, 2015
Review
Here Dwells the Jewish People
A review of Avraham Novershtern’s new book on a century of American Yiddish literature. Our reviewer asks: was Yiddish literature in America a cultural enterprise that was doomed from the start or one that generated multiple beginnings?
Aug 12, 2015