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
Review of So Many Warm Words by Rosa Nevadovska, trans. by Merle L. Bachman
Merle L. Bachman’s new translation of a selection of Nevadovska’s poems, mostly from Lider Mayne, published by Ben Yehuda Press, is an event to celebrate.
Oct 09, 2024
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Review of Three Yiddish Plays by Women: Female Jewish Perspectives, 1880-1920, Alyssa Quint (anthology editor)
These three wriers with lives unfolding in three different localities — Tsarist Russia, Poland, and the US — wrote plays that grapple with issues —such as the tragic fate of the agune (“chained wife”), motherhood, self-realization, sex work, financial independence, and reproductive autonomy— that unfortunately are still urgent a century later.
Jul 09, 2024
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Review of Montage: Works by Debora Vogel, trans. Lyubas
This small hardcover book is a perfect gem for those who want to introduce themselves to Vogel’s poetry.
Apr 17, 2024
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Review of Shira Gorshman's Meant to Be, translated by Faith Jones
This is the first book-length collection of Gorshman’s work to be translated into English, with only a handful of stories elsewhere.
Feb 19, 2024
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Review of Miriam Karpilove's A Provincial Newspaper and Other Stories, translated by Jessica Kirzane
The women in A Provincial Newspaper and Other Stories are complex, multifaceted characters, and they do not uniformly fixate on love.
Feb 12, 2024
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Review of Fear and Other Stories by Chana Blankshteyn, translated by Anita Norich
Apr 11, 2023
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Review of From the Jewish Provinces by Fradl Shtok, translated by Jordan D. Finkin and Allison Schachter
From the Jewish Provinces is a valuable and highly readable addition to Yiddish literature in translation.
Dec 15, 2022
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“Love is Death”: Judith: A Tale of Love and Woe
Judith is a novel about the mundanities of life and love that, as perhaps painful and unhealthy as they later turn out to be, persist even as the world around us erupts into violence, and that we carry with us halfway across the world and half a lifetime away.
May 12, 2022
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Review of Women Writing Jewish Modernity by Allison Schachter
Schachter calls us to think beyond the androcentric, to imagine and create an understanding of modern Jewish literature that places women at its center.
Feb 02, 2022