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Review of Moyshe Kulbak's Ale lider un poemen, edited by Siarhej Šupa

In two volumes, Siarhej Šupa brings Moyshe Kulbak’s complete poetry to readers in the Yiddish original, Belarusian translation, and Latin transliteration.

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Review of Childe Harold of Dysna by Moyshe Kulbak, translated by Robert Adler Peckerar

Moyshe Kulbak’s Childe Harold of Dysna—a novel in verse that is inspired by Lord Byron and dramatizes the character of the Jewish flaneur—charms, delights, and brings a gentle sorrow.

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Strangers in Berlin by Rachel Seelig

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.

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“To what might the yard have been compared?”

“Ach, the things a poor tailor has lived to see! We live in times when the coats go around making themselves.” A review of a recent translation of Kulbak’s Zelmenyaner.

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