Reviews

Jacobs (who, in addi­tion to being a schol­ar of mod­ern Hebrew lit­er­a­ture, is also an accom­plished trans­la­tor and poet) offers a rethink­ing of the mod­ern Hebrew canon as fun­da­men­tal­ly shaped by what she calls a ​“trans­la­tion­al poetics.”

May 03, 2021

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

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

Nao­mi Bren­ner’s new book com­pli­cates the sto­ry of the Hebrew-Yid­dish ​“lan­guage wars” and argues that Jew­ish translin­gual­ism con­tin­ues well into the 20^th century. 

Sep 18, 2016