Reviews
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Review of Rebecca Margolis's Yiddish Lives On: Strategies of Language Transmission
Rebecca Margolis’ Yidish Lebt: Yiddish Lives On: Strategies of Language Transmission explores how a diverse range of native, heritage, and new speakers have ensured not only the continuity of a minority language widely thought to be endangered, but evolved Yiddish into a site of creative renewal in the Jewish world.
Jun 08, 2023
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The Place of German in the History of Jewish Nationalism: Review of German as a Jewish Problem by Marc Volovici
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
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Review of the Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary
A comprehensive review of the Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary, including many examples of entries.
Jun 14, 2018
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Coordinated Movement?: Vladimir Jabotinsky and Polish Jewish Youth
Sarah Ellen Zarrow on language politics in Jabotinzky’s Revisionist Zionism
Oct 25, 2017
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“Falsche Juden”: A Study of Performative Identities in German Literature
Nike Thurn’s recent book explores how Jewishness is performed in German literature.
Oct 16, 2017
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Translingualism Today: A Review of Naomi Brenner’s Lingering Bilingualism
Naomi Brenner’s new book complicates the story of the Hebrew-Yiddish “language wars” and argues that Jewish translingualism continues well into the 20th century.
Sep 18, 2016