Reviews

Mel Konner’s com­pelling trans­la­tion of Helfandn bay Nakht (1950) takes the read­er through Sutzkever’s Nesiye iber Afri­ka, evok­ing sto­ries of wise African kings, masked hunters, shape-shift­ing prey, lovers divid­ed by croc­o­dile rivers, and the cre­ation of man begin­ning with ele­phant tusks.

Mar 03, 2025

Rojanski’s work pro­vides a com­pre­hen­sive pic­ture of the events and per­son­al­i­ties that chart the his­to­ry of Yid­dish in Israel.

Oct 20, 2021

May 16, 2019

A review of Avra­ham Nover­shtern’s new book on a cen­tu­ry of Amer­i­can Yid­dish lit­er­a­ture. Our review­er asks: was Yid­dish lit­er­a­ture in Amer­i­ca a cul­tur­al enter­prise that was doomed from the start or one that gen­er­at­ed mul­ti­ple beginnings? 

Aug 12, 2015