Reviews
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
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
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