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Essays and peer-reviewed scholarship in Yiddish Studies, an interdisciplinary field that engages all aspects of Yiddish cultural production, especially in its relationship to other cultures and languages.

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The Catalog of Thirty-One Kings: Thoughts in the Twenty-First Century on Old Yiddish Epic

Focus­ing on a retelling of Joshua 12:7 – 24, this study demon­strates the role of the epic in the rep­re­sen­ta­tion of bib­li­cal themes in Old Yid­dish literature.

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Translating As Saying

Can Mar­tin Buber and Franz Rosen­zweig’s trans­la­tion of the Hebrew Bible be con­sid­ered a form of Jew­ish speech? When and how does trans­la­tion become a Jew­ish way of talking?

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