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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Review
Review of Jason Lustig's A Time to Gather: Archives and the Control of Jewish Culture
How do moments of rupture shape the practices of institutions devoted to Jewish history?
Jun 03, 2024
Review
Back to the Ghetto
What might Yiddish studies stand to gain from recent books seeking to contextualize how the meaning and uses of term “ghetto” have changed over centuries?
Jun 13, 2023
Review
Review of Utopia’s Discontents: Russian Emigres and the Quest for Freedom, 1830s—1930s by Faith Hillis
Created out of necessity as a response to Tsarist repression, Hillis argues that circles of Russian émigré groups, or “colonies,” represented a crucial space in the development of Russian politics.
Oct 12, 2022
Review
Review of Transatlantic Russian Jewishness by Gennady Estraikh
Estraikh paints a vibrant picture of Yiddish socialism’s fluidity and its many tendencies as it responded to the tensions and traumas of the twentieth century.
Oct 12, 2021
Review
Review of: Benny Mer, Smocza: A Biography of a Jewish Street in Warsaw
The history of Smocza, a Jewish Street in Warsaw, is not the story of the world-renowned figures, but rather of every person who ever lived or died there, including those who are lost to our collective memory.
Jun 07, 2020
Article
'Before the bow that was drawn': The Vilna Komitet and its documentation of the destruction of Polish Jewry, 1939–1940/41
A translation of the introduction of Miriam Schulz’s recent book, Der Beginn des Untergangs: Die Zerstörung der jüdischen Gemeinden in Polen und das Vermächtnis des Wilnaer Komitees (“Before the bow that was drawn”: The Vilna Komitet and its documentation of the destruction of Polish Jewry).
May 14, 2018