Reviews

This collection of translated stories presents a new side of David Bergelson to German readers.

May 20, 2024

Tracing the retellings of the Wigalois/Viduvilt tradition in Yiddish works across three centuries, Annegret Oehme’s recent work offers an example of the value of adaptation theory for Jewish literature and Jewish history.

Jun 12, 2023

With his elegant new study, Jewish Primitivism, Samuel J. Spinner offers a new approach to the relationship between German and East European Jewish culture while also considering to what degree and in which ways differences among Jewish cultures reflect differences and interactions with the non-Jewish culture(s) around them.

Jan 10, 2023

Oct 27, 2022

German as a Jewish Language challenges the distinctions made between “Jewish” and “non-Jewish” languages and concurrently emphasizes the permeability between disciplinary boundaries.

May 18, 2021

This volume, edited and translated by Anna Maja Misiak, is the first edition of Debora Vogel’s work in any language to include all of her prose and poetry.

Mar 06, 2018

Nike Thurn’s recent book explores how Jewishness is performed in German literature.

Oct 16, 2017

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

A review of Efrat Gal-Ed’s new biography of Itzik Manger.

Oct 31, 2016