Reviews

Dropkin charts the competing ways of desire—for sex, for a child, for security—that swirled within any woman poised between tradition and modern life in America.

Jan 29, 2026

Apr 10, 2025

Merle L. Bachman’s new translation of a selection of Nevadovska’s poems, mostly from Lider Mayne, published by Ben Yehuda Press, is an event to celebrate.

Oct 09, 2024

These three wriers with lives unfolding in three different localities—Tsarist Russia, Poland, and the US—wrote plays that grapple with issues —such as the tragic fate of the agune (“chained wife”), motherhood, self-realization, sex work, financial independence, and reproductive autonomy— that unfortunately are still urgent a century later.

Jul 09, 2024

This small hardcover book is a perfect gem for those who want to introduce themselves to Vogel’s poetry.

Apr 17, 2024

This is the first book-length collection of Gorshman’s work to be translated into English, with only a handful of stories elsewhere.

Feb 19, 2024

The women in A Provincial Newspaper and Other Stories are complex, multifaceted characters, and they do not uniformly fixate on love.

Feb 12, 2024

Nov 08, 2023

Apr 11, 2023

From the Jewish Provinces is a valuable and highly readable addition to Yiddish literature in translation.

Dec 15, 2022