Reviews
Review
The New Yiddish Dialectology: A Review of Alexander Beider's The Origins of Yiddish Dialects
Alec (Leyzer) Burko
Leyzer Burko reviews Alexander Beider’s recent monumental volume on the origins of Yiddish dialects.
Jun 05, 2016
Review
“To what might the yard have been compared?”
Madeleine Cohen
“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
Review
Here Dwells the Jewish People
David G. Roskies
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