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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The Yiddish Columbus: Critical Counter-History and the Remapping of American Jewish Literature
Glantz’s masterwork Kristobal Kolon offers a transnational vision of the Americas that insists—in Yiddish—on its Jewish, Muslim, indigenous and African origins, suggesting a new geography for American Jewish literature that exceeds the boundaries of what we understand the Americas and Jewishness to be, and challenging our expectations of what Yiddish literature can contain.
Nov 09, 2022
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Musical Comedy as Compromise Formation: Judío and Judía (1926), by Ivo Pelay
Ivo Pelay’s 1926 plays Judío and Judía, “Jew” and “Jewess,” thematize anxiety not only about the Argentineity of Jews, but also about the Jewishness of Argentina: the promise of assimilation and the threat of subversion.
May 02, 2021
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On Yiddish Nuances: Yiddishkayt as Listening Key in the Music of Osvaldo Golijov
This paper approaches Osvaldo Golijov’s music from the intersection of musicology and Yiddish studies.
May 02, 2021
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The Goldenberg Variations: The International “Star System” and the Yiddish Theater of Buenos Aires in 1930
From the 1920s until the 1950s, Yiddish Buenos Aires hosted a thriving theatrical landscape. Critics complained that the public’s adoration of “stars” propelled a preponderance of shund at the expense of “better” (literary) plays.
May 02, 2021