Reviews

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

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