Reviews

Levyosn’s Dream is a model for what translators can do in musical community.

Jun 19, 2026

One might be tempted to name the wolf, but naming is a form of domestication, and neither a Jewish (Chaim) nor a gentile (Stepan) framework for meaning-making can contain or express his wildness.

Jun 03, 2026

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

These two new releases stand out as shining achievements of the second wave of the American klezmer revival/revitalization movement.

Feb 06, 2026

Dropkin charts the competing ways of desire—for sex, for a child, for security—that swirled within any woman poised between tradition and modern life in America.

Jan 29, 2026

Ester-Rokhl Kaminska picks blackberries better than anyone else. When she lights Shabbos candlesticks, they shine brighter than any other Shabbos candlesticks.

Jan 12, 2026

Detective Max Spitzkopf, the Yiddish Sherlock Holmes, is an unstoppable force for good.

Oct 22, 2025

Lea Schäfer demonstrates what can be learned about variations in pre-Holocaust Yiddish from the materials of the Language and Cultural Archive of Ashkenazic Jewry.

Jan 08, 2024

Warsaw casts a long shadow on other cities and the provinces in this account of Jewish culture throughout the Polish lands.

Dec 08, 2023

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