Reviews

Tracing the retellings of the Wigalois/Viduvilt tradition in Yiddish works across three centuries, Annegret Oehme’s recent work offers an example of the value of adaptation theory for Jewish literature and Jewish history.

Jun 12, 2023

Newton’s book provides a stirring call for a Jewish Studies to come, a proposal for new forms of affiliation, both within the loose boundaries of Jewish Studies and extending outward to the whole of the Humanities and to the university as an institution. What might it mean for Yiddish Studies to participate in this coming community?

Oct 05, 2020

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

Oct 05, 2016