Reviews

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Review of Marat Grinberg's The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf

Read­ing between the lines,” specif­i­cal­ly for sub­merged Jew­ish knowl­edge” in the con­text of the Sovi­et state’s sup­pres­sion of the full scope of Jew­ish tra­di­tion and his­to­ry, is for Grin­berg the key attribute of Sovi­et Jew­ish identity.

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Review of Sandra Fox's The Jews of Summer

Sum­mer may end, but sum­mer camp and its lega­cies con­tin­ue. San­dra Fox’s book looks to sum­mer camps to explore what kinds of cul­ture and com­mu­ni­ty embraced by young Jews in post­war America.

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Review of Diego Rotman's The Yiddish Stage as a Temporary Home

In this study of Shi­men Dzi­gan and Yis­roel Schu­mach­er, Diego Rot­man presents a study of the sub­ver­sive pow­er of Yid­dish com­e­dy in the twen­ti­eth century.

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Review of Lisa Richter’s Nautilus and Bone; An Auto/biography in Poems

As a read­er of Margolin’s poet­ry in its orig­i­nal Yid­dish, and a trans­la­tor of her work into Eng­lish, I approached this col­lec­tion with both inter­est and skepticism.

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Review of Artifacts of Orthodox Jewish Childhoods, edited by Dainy Bernstein

From CDs to detec­tive sto­ries, zines to toys, the objects remem­bered and ana­lyzed in this vol­ume presents the range of mate­r­i­al that filled the child­hoods of Ashke­nazi Ortho­dox Jews grow­ing up in the last decades of the twen­ti­eth century.

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Back to the Ghetto

What might Yid­dish stud­ies stand to gain from recent books seek­ing to con­tex­tu­al­ize how the mean­ing and uses of term ghet­to” have changed over centuries?

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Review of Annegret Oehme's The Knight without Boundaries: Yiddish and German Arthurian Wingalois Adaptations

Trac­ing the retellings of the Wigalois/​Viduvilt tra­di­tion in Yid­dish works across three cen­turies, Annegret Oehme’s recent work offers an exam­ple of the val­ue of adap­ta­tion the­o­ry for Jew­ish lit­er­a­ture and Jew­ish history.

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Review of Rebecca Margolis's Yiddish Lives On: Strategies of Language Transmission

Rebec­ca Mar­go­lis’ Yidish Lebt: Yid­dish Lives On: Strate­gies of Lan­guage Trans­mis­sion explores how a diverse range of native, her­itage, and new speak­ers have ensured not only the con­ti­nu­ity of a minor­i­ty lan­guage wide­ly thought to be endan­gered, but evolved Yid­dish into a site of cre­ative renew­al in the Jew­ish world.

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