Reviews
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Review of Fear and Other Stories by Chana Blankshteyn, translated by Anita Norich
Apr 11, 2023
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Review of From the Jewish Provinces by Fradl Shtok, translated by Jordan D. Finkin and Allison Schachter
From the Jewish Provinces is a valuable and highly readable addition to Yiddish literature in translation.
Dec 15, 2022
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“Love is Death”: Judith: A Tale of Love and Woe
Judith is a novel about the mundanities of life and love that, as perhaps painful and unhealthy as they later turn out to be, persist even as the world around us erupts into violence, and that we carry with us halfway across the world and half a lifetime away.
May 12, 2022
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Review of Women Writing Jewish Modernity by Allison Schachter
Schachter calls us to think beyond the androcentric, to imagine and create an understanding of modern Jewish literature that places women at its center.
Feb 02, 2022
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New Resources for Studying Jewish Women's Lives in Early Modern Europe
Two new publications offer rich and engaging material for the further exploration of Jewish life in early modern Europe.
May 24, 2021
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Sewn with the Tiniest of Pearls
Murphy’s translations of Perl’s stories allow us to appreciate an ever more colorful canvas of modern Yiddish literature.
Feb 28, 2021
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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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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.
Mar 06, 2018
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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.
Nov 30, 2016