Reviews
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Review of Making and Unmaking Literature in the Warsaw, Lodz, and Vilna Ghettos by Sven-Erik Rose
Sven-Erik Rose devotes tremendous care to the texts he studies, situating them in broader currents of modern European literature and zeroing in on the qualities that make them astonishing and worthy of a much wider readership than they have had. His book will undoubtedly be a boon to scholars and readers of all kinds, from experts in the field to those with little knowledge to teachers looking for ways of incorporating powerful, lesser-known Holocaust texts into their classes.
Apr 07, 2026
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Review of Letters from the Afterlife: The Post-Holocaust Correspondence of Chava Rosenfarb and Zenia Larsson. Edited by Goldie Morgentaler.
The letters collected here document the women’s profound struggles with survivors’ guilt, immigration, and cultural during the postwar years.
Mar 15, 2026
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A Soviet Narrative of Jewish Resistance? Review of Hersh Smolar Jews Without Yellow Stars: Stories of Jewish Partisan Fighters in Nazi-occupied Belarus
May 19, 2025
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A Mosaic of Memory: Levi Shalit and the Twilight of Shavl Jewry (Review of So We Died: A Memoir of Life and Death in the Ghetto of Šiauliai, Lithuania)
May 07, 2025
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Review of Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish by Hannah Pollin-Galay
There is a well-known Yiddish proverb that argues Verter zol men vegn un nit tseyln (Words should be weighed and not counted). But when one pays attention to the weight of words in the way Hannah Pollin-Galay does, every word counts.
Feb 18, 2025
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Review of Warsaw Testament by Rokhl Auerbach, trans. Kassow
This is a watershed entry into the English canon of Holocaust testimony.
Jun 06, 2024
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Treating Emotions in a Tempest: Review of Amy Simon’s Emotions in Yiddish Ghetto Diaries
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
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Review of Anne-Christin Klotz's Gemeinsam gegen Deutschland
In this study of the Jewish press in Poland, Anne-Christin Klotz identifies Polish Jewry, and specifically local Yiddish writers and journalists, as central to understanding the Nazi threat in the 1930s.
Mar 21, 2023
