Articles

This paper aims to com­pli­cate the neat chronol­o­gy that bifur­cates mod­ern Jew­ish lit­er­a­ture from its Hasidic roots, using Fishl Schneer­sohn’s nov­el Khay­im Grav­itser and Avra­ham Shlon­sky’s Hebrew trans­la­tion of the nov­el to demon­strate that these authors con­tin­ued the Hasidic lit­er­ary tra­di­tion of Chabad even as they embraced alter­na­tive lit­er­ary forms in the cause of new aes­thet­ic agendas.

Oct 09, 2018

An intro­duc­tion from the edi­tors of the spe­cial issue of In geveb on Reli­gious Thought in Yiddish.

Jan 20, 2019

In his recent metic­u­lous­ly-researched and sen­si­tive­ly-writ­ten work, Ariel Evan Mayse brings to the atten­tion of the con­tem­po­rary read­er a remark­able the­ol­o­gy of lan­guage to be found in the teach­ings of Dov Ber Fried­man, the Mag­gid of Mezritsh (1704−1772).

Oct 28, 2020

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

Dyn­ner frames The Light of Learn­ing​’s sweep­ing his­tor­i­cal nar­ra­tive with a cru­cial the­o­ret­i­cal inter­ven­tion. To think about inter­war Pol­ish Hasidism is also to think about the ongo­ing con­struc­tion of mod­ern Jew­ish iden­ti­ty, and the fraught inter­sec­tions of eman­ci­pa­tion, accul­tur­a­tion, assim­i­la­tion, and colonization.

Oct 14, 2024