Reviews

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

Oct 16, 2017

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

A review of the new edition of S. A. Birnbaum’s Yiddish: A Survey and a Grammar

Jun 15, 2017

A review of Claudia Rosenzweig’s new critical edition of the bove-bukh.

May 25, 2017

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

Mar 22, 2017

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

The new anthology of stories published in The Forward has more than a few gems, Eileen Pollack reviews.

Nov 30, 2016

A review of Efrat Gal-Ed’s new biography of Itzik Manger.

Oct 31, 2016

Miriam Udel’s new book travels with the genre of the picaresque from the shtetl to the USA to the USSR and brings it into the twentieth century.

Oct 19, 2016