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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 Great Call of the Hour”: Hillel Zeitlin’s Yiddish Writings on Yavneh

An intro­duc­tion to the writ­ings by Hil­lel Zeitlin on the inten­tion­al, neo-Hasidic com­mu­ni­ty he tried to cre­ate in War­saw in the 1920s. 

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The Shtik Kabole Niger Couldn’t Digest: Poetry, Messianism, and Literatoyre in Aaron Zeitlin’s Keter

This study presents a trans­la­tion and analy­sis of Aaron Zeitlin’s (18981973) poem Keter: Frag­menten fun a rap­sodye,” pub­lished in 1923, at the height of the War­saw expres­sion­ist explo­sion of the ear­ly twenties. 

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