Articles

Reading Rachel Wischnitzer’s editorial vision for the journal Milgroym as a “global museum.”

Jan 29, 2018

Gollance reconsiders Fradel Shtok’s oeuvre and literary reception in the context of her translation of Shtok’s short story “A tants” (A dance).

Dec 03, 2017

Weininger analyzes Anna Margolin’s cycle of poems entitled “Mary,” exploring her use of Christological themes and figures and the expression of identity and self-definition in the poems.

May 18, 2017

The study of Yiddish cinema gets updated for the twenty-first century, Margolis explores how the language is being used in film in the last decade.

Dec 18, 2016

Bashevis Singer comments on his narrator commenting on his characters—and David Stromberg untangles the polyphony of the Nobel Prize winner’s fictional world.

Jun 13, 2016

In this peer-reviewed article, David Roskies explores Peretz’s fondness for dialogue to discover the sound chamber of Polish Jewry.

May 22, 2016

In this peer-reviewed article, Adi Mahalel follows Peretz’s search, through new literary styles, for new forms of revolutionary politics.

May 22, 2016

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

Mar 08, 2016

Jacob Steinberg’s poetry between Hebrew and Yiddish, between mourning and melancholy.

Sep 24, 2015

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