Reviews
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“Hand in Hand Ever After We’ll Be”: Review of Rashel Veprinski’s Novel in Translation
In this roman à clef, a novel based on real life people and events, Veprinski paints a vivid portrait of young love and literary life in New York.
May 06, 2026
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Review of Henry H. Sapoznik, The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City
Drawing on his own passion, his background as chronicler of Yiddish song, and his deep research in thousands of newspapers, biographical materials, and many little-known images of disappeared sites and buildings, Sapoznik documents the continuing legacy of Yiddish culture in the American present.
Mar 09, 2026
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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.
Feb 14, 2024
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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.
Feb 07, 2024
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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