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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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