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
Coordinated Movement?: Vladimir Jabotinsky and Polish Jewish Youth
Sarah Ellen Zarrow on language politics in Jabotinzky’s Revisionist Zionism
Oct 25, 2017
Review
Review of Anne-Christin Klotz's Gemeinsam gegen Deutschland
In this study of the Jewish press in Poland, Anne-Christin Klotz identifies Polish Jewry, and specifically local Yiddish writers and journalists, as central to understanding the Nazi threat in the 1930s.
Mar 21, 2023
Review
Review of Kenneth B. Moss’s An Unchosen People
In this study of Jewish grassroots thinkers, Kenneth B. Moss offers an account of Jewish thought, culture, and choices in interwar Poland.
Apr 11, 2023
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Review of Polish Jewish Culture Beyond the Capital, edited by Halina Goldberg and Nancy Sinkoff with Natalia Aleksiun
Warsaw casts a long shadow on other cities and the provinces in this account of Jewish culture throughout the Polish lands.
Dec 08, 2023
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Review of Glenn Dynner's The Light of Learning: Hasidism in Poland on the Eve of the Holocaust
Dynner frames The Light of Learning’s sweeping historical narrative with a crucial theoretical intervention. To think about interwar Polish Hasidism is also to think about the ongoing construction of modern Jewish identity, and the fraught intersections of emancipation, acculturation, assimilation, and colonization.
Oct 14, 2024