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“This is How a Generation Grows”: Lynching as a Site of Ethical Loss in Opatoshu’s “Lintsheray”

What can Opatoshu’s con­tro­ver­sial sto­ry about a lynch­ing tell us about the com­plex Jew­ish encounter with Amer­i­can cul­ture and the poten­tial loss of an eth­i­cal tradition.

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Yiddish Exceptionalism: Lynching, Race, and Racism in Opatoshu’s “Lintsheray”

How can Yid­dish describe the scene of a lynch­ing of a black man? Marc Caplan exam­ines the lan­guage strate­gies of Opatoshu’s Lintsher­ay.”

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