Reviews
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Review of From a Bird’s Cage to a Thin Branch: The Selected Poems of Yosef Kerler trans. Evrona
Kerler imagines the borders of any country as the walls of a cell.
May 20, 2024
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Review of Moyshe Kulbak's Ale lider un poemen, edited by Siarhej Šupa
In two volumes, Siarhej Šupa brings Moyshe Kulbak’s complete poetry to readers in the Yiddish original, Belarusian translation, and Latin transliteration.
Apr 29, 2024
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Review of Jonah Corne and Monika Vrečar's Yiddish Cinema: The Drama of Troubled Communication
Yiddish Cinema: The Drama of Troubled Communication suggests innovative and fruitful ways that scholarship in media studies can be applied to Yiddish cinema.
Apr 25, 2024
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Review of Montage: Works by Debora Vogel, trans. Lyubas
This small hardcover book is a perfect gem for those who want to introduce themselves to Vogel’s poetry.
Apr 17, 2024
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Review of The Communist Satyricon: Sem Liptsin’s She Sold her Husband and Other Satirical Sketches, translated and edited by Zeke Levine
Mar 12, 2024
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Review of Shira Gorshman's Meant to Be, translated by Faith Jones
This is the first book-length collection of Gorshman’s work to be translated into English, with only a handful of stories elsewhere.
Feb 19, 2024
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Review of Seth Stern's Speaking Yiddish to Chickens
This account of Yiddish-speaking farmers offers a model for engaging with oral history and the memory of communities that have since disappeared.
Feb 14, 2024
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Review of Miriam Karpilove's A Provincial Newspaper and Other Stories, translated by Jessica Kirzane
The women in A Provincial Newspaper and Other Stories are complex, multifaceted characters, and they do not uniformly fixate on love.
Feb 12, 2024
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Review of Nick Underwood's Yiddish Paris: Staging Nation and Community in Interwar France
Today’s Yiddishists can find historical models for politically-engaged cultural activism in Nick Underwood’s account of interwar Paris.
Feb 07, 2024
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Review of Adi Mahalel's The Radical Isaac: I. L. Peretz and the Rise of Jewish Socialism
Reading Peretz as a political thinker, Adi Mahalel offers a case for writing socialism into the center of the rise of modern Yiddish literature.
Jan 29, 2024