Reviews

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

Jerold Frakes’s recent English anthology makes early Yiddish epic accessible to a broad audience for the first time.

Oct 05, 2016

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

Sep 18, 2016

A review of Kenyon Zimmer’s recently published book, Immigrants Against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America.

Sep 05, 2016

Leyzer Burko reviews Alexander Beider’s recent monumental volume on the origins of Yiddish dialects.

Jun 05, 2016

“Ach, the things a poor tailor has lived to see! We live in times when the coats go around making themselves.” A review of a recent translation of Kulbak’s Zelmenyaner.

Oct 11, 2015

A review of Avraham Novershtern’s new book on a century of American Yiddish literature. Our reviewer asks: was Yiddish literature in America a cultural enterprise that was doomed from the start or one that generated multiple beginnings?

Aug 12, 2015