Reviews
Review
Review of Seeds in the Desert by Mendel Mann, translated and with an introduction by Heather Valencia
Shachar Pinsker
These stories take place in Israeli cities, towns, and villages, in the post-war Soviet Union, and in Poland of the interwar period. However, it is often very difficult to tell where the stories actually take place, because they express an experience of dislocation and total disorientation.
May 20, 2020
Review
Women’s Voices from Yiddish to Polish
Aleksandra Kremer
Kremer reviews two new volumes dealing with Yiddish poetry, both published in Poland in 2018, which focus on the work of women poets.
Nov 17, 2019
Review
Review of A Jewish Refugee in New York: Rivke Zilberg’s Journal by Kadya Molodovsky, Translated by Anita Norich
Rachel Rubinstein
Oct 06, 2019
Review
Review of On The Landing: Stories by Yenta Mash translated by Ellen Cassedy
Allison Schachter
Jun 24, 2019
Review
Die Geometrie des Verzichts: Deborah Vogel's poetry, essays, and letters in a new German translation and compilation
Anastasiya Lyubas
This volume, edited and translated by Anna Maja Misiak, is the first edition of Debora Vogel’s work in any language to include all of her prose and poetry.
Mar 06, 2018
Review
Judgment
Boris Dralyuk
In time for the one hundredth anniversary of the October revolution, Dovid Bergelson’s novel Mides-hadin is out in a new translation by Harriet Murav and Sasha Senderovich.
Nov 07, 2017
Review
Nothing Backwards about the Forward's New Anthology
Eileen Pollack
The new anthology of stories published in The Forward has more than a few gems, Eileen Pollack reviews.
Nov 30, 2016
Review
Jerold C. Frakes: Early Yiddish Epic
Rachel Wamsley
Jerold Frakes’s recent English anthology makes early Yiddish epic accessible to a broad audience for the first time.
Oct 05, 2016