Articles

Yitzhak Lewis shows how Reb Nach­man ini­ti­at­ed a new era of Jew­ish lit­er­a­ture that shaped nine­teenth- and twen­ti­eth-cen­tu­ry Yid­dish and Hebrew writing.

Mar 30, 2021

Krutikov’s philo­log­i­cal skillset and metic­u­lous archival research shine through­out this book, a land­mark study of both Der Nis­ter and Yid­dish lit­er­a­ture under Stalin.

Jan 12, 2021

By con­sid­er­ing the image of the street­walk­er in Manger’s and Vogel’s work, this arti­cle deep­ens the under­stand­ing of Yid­dish cre­ativ­i­ty as ulti­mate­ly mul­ti­modal and interconnected.

Dec 02, 2020

Hertz Gros­bard’s ​“word con­certs” were an embod­i­ment of ​“Jew­speak,” per­for­mances that sought to give life to the Yid­dish lit­er­ary tradition.

Jun 23, 2020

How the poet Louis Zukof­sky con­struct­ed his Eng­lish-lan­guage Amer­i­can mod­ernism by cit­ing, trans­lat­ing, and adapt­ing the Yid­dish poet­ry of Yehoash.

Dec 16, 2019

Jun 26, 2019

This study presents a trans­la­tion and analy­sis of Aaron Zeitlin’s (1898−1973) poem ​“Keter: Frag­menten fun a rap­sodye,” pub­lished in 1923, at the height of the War­saw expres­sion­ist explo­sion of the ear­ly twenties. 

Nov 29, 2018

Shachar M. Pinsker’s lat­est work is a live­ly exam­i­na­tion of the role of cafés as meet­ing grounds for Jew­ish writ­ers and thinkers in the mod­ern peri­od of transna­tion­al migra­tion, from 1848 – 1939.

Sep 16, 2018

Seel­ig’s new book explores the city of Berlin dur­ing the Weimar peri­od as a ​“tran­sit sta­tion” for Jew­ish lit­er­a­ture writ­ten in Ger­man, Yid­dish, and Hebrew.

Apr 26, 2017

Miri­am Udel’s new book trav­els with the genre of the picaresque from the shtetl to the USA to the USSR and brings it into the twen­ti­eth century.

Oct 19, 2016