Reviews

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Jerold C. Frakes: Early Yiddish Epic

Jerold Frakes’s recent Eng­lish anthol­o­gy makes ear­ly Yid­dish epic acces­si­ble to a broad audi­ence for the first time. 

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Nothing Backwards about the Forward's New Anthology

The new anthol­o­gy of sto­ries pub­lished in The For­ward has more than a few gems, Eileen Pol­lack reviews. 

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Judgment

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. 

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Die Geometrie des Verzichts: Deborah Vogel's poetry, essays, and letters in a new German translation and compilation

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.

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Women’s Voices from Yiddish to Polish

Kre­mer reviews two new vol­umes deal­ing with Yid­dish poet­ry, both pub­lished in Poland in 2018, which focus on the work of women poets. 

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Review of Seeds in the Desert by Mendel Mann, translated and with an introduction by Heather Valencia

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.

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