Reviews

The three decades of the Algemeyne Entsiklopedye trace the fate of Yiddish diaspora nationalism before and after the Second World War and the genocide of Europe’s Jews.

Jan 23, 2024

Lea Schäfer demonstrates what can be learned about variations in pre-Holocaust Yiddish from the materials of the Language and Cultural Archive of Ashkenazic Jewry.

Jan 08, 2024

Warsaw casts a long shadow on other cities and the provinces in this account of Jewish culture throughout the Polish lands.

Dec 08, 2023

Amy Simon deploys empathic reading to interpret the range of emotions contained in Yiddish diaries written in the ghettos of Warsaw, Lodz, and Vilna.

Dec 04, 2023

Nov 20, 2023

Reading “between the lines,” specifically for submerged “Jewish knowledge” in the context of the Soviet state’s suppression of the full scope of Jewish tradition and history, is for Grinberg the key attribute of Soviet Jewish identity.

Nov 16, 2023

Nov 08, 2023

Summer may end, but summer camp and its legacies continue. Sandra Fox’s book looks to summer camps to explore what kinds of culture and community embraced by young Jews in postwar America.

Sep 27, 2023

In this study of Shimen Dzigan and Yisroel Schumacher, Diego Rotman presents a study of the subversive power of Yiddish comedy in the twentieth century.

Sep 18, 2023

As a reader of Margolin’s poetry in its original Yiddish, and a translator of her work into English, I approached this collection with both interest and skepticism.

Jul 05, 2023