Reviews
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How to be Both: Officials and Artists Vying for the Limelight
Mayhill Fowler’s book shines light on the blind spots of national cultural histories of turn of the century Ukraine, following the often uneasy interface between authorities and art institutions.
Mar 26, 2018
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Review of A Rich Brew: How Cafés Created Modern Jewish Culture by Shachar M. Pinsker
Shachar M. Pinsker’s latest work is a lively examination of the role of cafés as meeting grounds for Jewish writers and thinkers in the modern period of transnational migration, from 1848 – 1939.
Sep 16, 2018
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What Does Justice Mean, Decades Later?: Review of Ida Fink’s Der tish in Paris
Ri Turner reviews the World Première of Ida Fink’s Der tish in Paris.
May 09, 2019
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Charlie, [gesturing to Fascist General Franco on screen] fucking swine isn’t he?
William Pimlott reviews Gill Tofell’s Jews, Cinema and Public Life in Interwar Britain and Alan Dein’s Music is the most beautiful language in the World: Yiddisher Jazz in London’s East End 1920s-1950s.
May 23, 2019
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Review of Queer Expectations: A Genealogy of Jewish Women's Poetry by Zohar Weiman-Kelman
Jun 13, 2019
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Translated and Improved: Ilan Stavans’ On Self-Translation: Meditations on Language
Oct 21, 2019
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Review of A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts From the First Century to 1969
Sienna’s book attempts to set the record straight (as it were) by bringing together and deeply annotating 120 diverse Jewish texts that each shed some light on Jewish LGBTQ lives, Jewish histories of same-sex eroticism, and Jewish experiences of gender transgression.
Oct 28, 2019