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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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“An altogether unusual love and understanding”: The Shomer Sisters and the Gender Politics of Shund Theatre

Exam­in­ing Rose Shomer Bache­lis and Miri­am Shomer Zunser in the con­text of their famous shund-writ­ing fam­i­ly, this arti­cle argues that their operetta Der liebes tants” — a love tri­an­gle with an Apache dance motif — should be read against the grain to empha­size the impor­tance of sisterhood.

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A Poetic Paradox: Gender and Self in Anna Margolin’s Mary Cycle

Weininger ana­lyzes Anna Mar­golin’s cycle of poems enti­tled Mary,” explor­ing her use of Chris­to­log­i­cal themes and fig­ures and the expres­sion of iden­ti­ty and self-def­i­n­i­tion in the poems. 

Review

The Marriage Plot

Nao­mi Sei­d­man’s new book exam­ines the Ashke­nazi Jew­ish expe­ri­ence of mod­ern­iza­tion through the rep­re­sen­ta­tion of chang­ing ideas about love and sex­u­al­i­ty in literature. 

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