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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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Review

Labor, Love, and Life in Immigrant London

In this ground­break­ing study, Lachs draws upon often ignored doc­u­ments of pop­u­lar cul­ture (con­ven­tion­al­ly writ­ten off as shund by her pre­de­ces­sors) in order to paint a vivid pic­ture of work­ing class immi­grant Lon­don at the turn of the 20th century.

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Cod Yiddish From Across the Pond: Howard Jacobson’s Finklerspeak

Howard Jacob­son tests the lim­its and con­tours of a Jew­ish way of speak­ing, pre­sent­ing an Anglo-Jew­ish dia­logue with post-impe­r­i­al culture.

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