Reviews
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Review of On The Landing: Stories by Yenta Mash translated by Ellen Cassedy
Allison Schachter
Jun 24, 2019
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Review of Queer Expectations: A Genealogy of Jewish Women's Poetry by Zohar Weiman-Kelman
Shoshana Olidort
Jun 13, 2019
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Charlie, [gesturing to Fascist General Franco on screen] fucking swine isn’t he?
William Pimlott
William Pimlott reviews Gill Tofell’s Jews, Cinema and Public Life in Interwar Britain and Alan Dein’s Music is the most beautiful language in the World: Yiddisher Jazz in London’s East End 1920s-1950s.
May 23, 2019
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What Does Justice Mean, Decades Later?: Review of Ida Fink’s Der tish in Paris
Ri J. Turner
Ri Turner reviews the World Premiere of Ida Fink’s Der tish in Paris.
May 09, 2019
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Review of The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis by David Fishman
Julia Riegel
May 06, 2019
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Review of Yiddish Empire: The Vilna Troupe, Jewish Theater, and the Art of Itinerancy by Debra Caplan
Mayhill Fowler
In the brief decade of its existence, the Vilna Theater Troupe radically changed Yiddish theater, and the global stage.
Feb 06, 2019
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Review of Raising Secular Jews: Yiddish Schools and Their Periodicals for American Children, 1917-1950 by Naomi Prawer Kadar
Dylan Kaufman-Obstler
Dec 10, 2018
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Review of The Cambridge History of Jewish American Literature, edited by Hana Wirth-Nesher
Adriana X. Jacobs
Nov 18, 2018
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Review of Convergence, an Album of Multi-Diasporic Musical Longing by Anthony Russell and Veretski Pass
Leah Reis-Dennis
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