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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Article

Breaking Ground, Broken English: Abraham Cahan’s The Imported Bridegroom

Cahan’s char­ac­ters speak in bro­ken lan­guages, and in so doing find them­selves unable to find sta­ble ground in America.

Review

Review of Seth Stern's Speaking Yiddish to Chickens

This account of Yid­dish-speak­ing farm­ers offers a mod­el for engag­ing with oral his­to­ry and the mem­o­ry of com­mu­ni­ties that have since disappeared.

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