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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Women Wrote: Glikl in Context
Placing Glikl’s writing alongside writings by other contemporary women in central Europe reveals what characterized their shared literary and cultural context.
Jul 12, 2024
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A Dance: Fradel Shtok Reconsidered
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
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A Poetic Paradox: Gender and Self in Anna Margolin’s Mary Cycle
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
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Dream of a Common loshn
How can we read Yiddish poetry across time to find a new common language? How can we create a space for the imagined dialogues of Kadia Molodowsky and Adrienne Rich with their foremothers, an alternative narrative of blood and text?
Aug 11, 2015