Articles

A review of Efrat Gal-Ed’s new biog­ra­phy of Itzik Manger. 

Oct 31, 2016

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

Nike Thurn’s recent book explores how Jew­ish­ness is per­formed in Ger­man literature. 

Oct 16, 2017

This vol­ume, edit­ed and trans­lat­ed by Anna Maja Misi­ak, is the first edi­tion of Deb­o­ra Vogel’s work in any lan­guage to include all of her prose and poetry.

Mar 06, 2018

Ger­man as a Jew­ish Lan­guage chal­lenges the dis­tinc­tions made between ​“Jew­ish” and ​“non-Jew­ish” lan­guages and con­cur­rent­ly empha­sizes the per­me­abil­i­ty between dis­ci­pli­nary boundaries.

May 18, 2021

Oct 27, 2022

With his ele­gant new study, Jew­ish Prim­i­tivism, Samuel J. Spin­ner offers a new approach to the rela­tion­ship between Ger­man and East Euro­pean Jew­ish cul­ture while also con­sid­er­ing to what degree and in which ways dif­fer­ences among Jew­ish cul­tures reflect dif­fer­ences and inter­ac­tions with the non-Jew­ish culture(s) around them.

Jan 10, 2023

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

This col­lec­tion of trans­lat­ed sto­ries presents a new side of David Bergel­son to Ger­man readers. 

May 20, 2024