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
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
Immigrants Against the State
A review of Kenyon Zimmer’s recently published book, Immigrants Against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America.
Sep 05, 2016