Articles
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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Viva Voce: Vicissitudes of the Spoken Word in Hebrew Literature
Why does the Hebrew novel have a problem with speech? Alan Mintz on the non-dialogical and the monological in modern Hebrew literature.
Jun 23, 2020
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The Price of Remorse: Yiddish and the Work of Mourning in Jacob Steinberg’s Hebrew Poetry
Jacob Steinberg’s poetry between Hebrew and Yiddish, between mourning and melancholy.
Sep 24, 2015
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Tongue-Twisted: Itzik Manger between mame-loshn and loshn-koydesh
Avant-garde Yiddish poet Itzik Manger reinscribes traditional Yiddish cultural practices, such as iconoclastic and anachronistic rewritings of biblical texts, in a politically radical and poetically modernist context.
Aug 13, 2015