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The Latest in Yiddish Studies in English: 2022

Elena Hoffenberg

INTRODUCTION

Each year we are pleased to present our annu­al effort to gath­er togeth­er the lat­est pub­li­ca­tions rel­e­vant to Yid­dish Stud­ies in Eng­lish. Gath­er­ing these mate­ri­als allows us to draw atten­tion to the newest schol­ar­ship in our field(s) and account for growth and trends in the schol­ar­ship. The schol­ar­ship on this list is orga­nized by for­mat in the fol­low­ing cat­e­gories: books, book chap­ters, spe­cial issues, jour­nal arti­cles, and dis­ser­ta­tions. Each entry is fol­lowed by a link to access the mate­r­i­al online. 

While Eng­lish is far from the only lan­guage of Yid­dish schol­ar­ship, we are pleased that this bib­li­og­ra­phy of Eng­lish-lan­guage works fea­tures schol­ars from the glob­al reach of Yid­dish Stud­ies. If you are inter­est­ed in com­pil­ing a sim­i­lar list for schol­ar­ship pub­lished in anoth­er lan­guage, we encour­age you to reach out to us. Please also con­tact us if you have any sug­ges­tions for addi­tions to the cur­rent bibliography.

Books

Book Chap­ters

Spe­cial Issues

Arti­cles

Dis­ser­ta­tions

Books


Bernstein, Dainy, ed. Artifacts of Orthodox Jewish Childhoods: Critical and Personal Essays. Teaneck, NJ: Ben Yehuda Press, 2022. https://www.benyehudapress.com/books/artifacts-of-orthodox-childhoods/.

Chiriac, Alexandra. Performing Modernism: A Jewish Avant-Garde in Bucharest. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110765687/html.

Cohen Roman, Oren. Joshua and Judges in Yiddish Verse: Four Early Modern Epics. An Annotated Edition. Berlin and Boston: Düsseldorf University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110740899.

Gal-Ed, Efrat, Natasha Gordinsky, Sabine Koller, and Yfaat Weiss, eds. In Their Surroundings: Localizing Modern Jewish Literatures in Eastern Europe. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2022. https://doi.org/10.13109/97836....

Gradowski, Zalmen. The Last Consolation Vanished: The Testimony of a Sonderkommando in Auschwitz. Translated by Rubye Monet. Edited by Arnold I. Davidson and Philippe Mesnard. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo177989518.html.

Grinberg, Marat. The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Jewish Culture and Identity Between the Lines. Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2022. muse.jhu.edu/book/103781.

Hellerstein, Kathryn and Lihong Song. China and Ashkenazic Jewry: Transcultural Encounters. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110683943.

Kaiser, Max. Jewish Antifascism and the False Promise of Settler Colonialism. Cham: Palgrave MacMillan, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-....

Mann, Barbara E. The Object of Jewish Literature: A Material History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2mm212m.

Markel, Howard. Quarantine! East European Jewish Immigrants and the New York City Epidemics of 1892. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. doi.org/10.1353/book.100179.

Mogilner, Marina. A Race for the Future: Scientific Visions of Modern Russian Jewishness. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674270725.

Senderovich, Sasha. How the Soviet Jew Was Made. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674238190.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis and David Stromberg. Old Truths and New Clichés: Essays by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691238982.

Trachtenberg, Barry. The Holocaust & the Exile of Yiddish: A History of the Algemeyne Entsiklopedye. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2022. muse.jhu.edu/book/102501.

Underwood, Nick. Yiddish Paris: Staging Nation and Community in Interwar France. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2022. https://iupress.org/9780253059796/yiddish-paris/.

Zemon Davis, Natalie. Listening to the Languages of the People: Lazare Sainéan on Romanian, Yiddish, and French. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2022. muse.jhu.edu/book/100046.

Zubrzycki, Geneviève. Resurrecting the Jew: Nationalism, Philosemitism, and Poland’s Jewish Revival. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. muse.jhu.edu/book/102915.


Book Chapters


Baker, Zachary M. “A Yanqui’s Gaze: Maurice Schwartz’s South American Travelogues from 1930.” In Jewish Experiences Across the Americas: Local Histories through Global Lenses, edited by Katalin Franciska Rac and Lenny A. Ureña Valerio, 176-200. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2022. https://upf.com/book.asp?id=9781683402565.

Belk, Zoë, Lily Kahn, Kriszta Eszter Szendrői, and Sonya Yampolskaya. “Translating Covid-19 Information into Yiddish for the Montreal-Area Hasidic Community.” In Lockdown Cultures: The Arts and Humanities in the Year of the Pandemic, 2020-21, edited by Stella Bruzzi, Maurice Biriotti, Sam Caleb, and Harvey Wiltshire, 22-29. London: University College London Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2hvfjf7.9.

Bialystok, Franklin. "Yiddish Canada." In Faces in the Crowd: The Jews of Canada, 63-100. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442604438-008.

Block, Nick. "The Place of Yiddish in German-Jewish Studies." In German–Jewish Studies: Next Generations edited by Kerry Wallach and Aya Elyada, 101-118. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781800736788-010.

Degler (Lisek), Joanna. “Polish Independence and the Role of Yiddish Women Poets.” In Zukunft der Sprache — Zukunft der Nation?: Verhandlungen des Jiddischen und Jüdischen im Kontext der Czernowitzer Sprachkonferenz, edited by Carmen Reichert, Bettina Bannasch, and Alfred Wildfeuer, 253-278. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022. 10.1515/9783110755138.

Elyada, Aya. "Old Yiddish Texts in German-Jewish Culture: Diachronic Translation and the (Re)turn to the Past." In German–Jewish Studies: Next Generations edited by Kerry Wallach and Aya Elyada, 38-57. New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781800736788-007.

Estraikh, Gennady. “Soviet Yiddish Cultural Diplomacy in the Post-Stalinist 1950s.” In Jewish Lives under Communism: New Perspectives, edited by Kateřina Čapková and Kamil Kijek, 174-194. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2022. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/176/edited_volume/chapter/3222638.

Green, Deborah A. “The Holy War on Fascism.” In Jewish Imaginaries of the Spanish Civil War: In Search of Poetic Justice, edited by Cynthia Gabbay, 92-107. New York: Bloomsbury, 2022. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/jewish-imaginaries-of-the-spanish-civil-war-9781501379420/.

Greenberg, Lea H. “Staging Theatrical and Linguistic Adaptation: Yiddish Theater of the Berlin Haskalah.” In DiverCITY: Jewish Berlin, Past and Present, edited by Rainer Kampling. Berlin and Leipzig: Hentrich & Hentrich, 2022. https://www.hentrichhentrich.de/book-divercity-jewish-berlin-past-and-present.html.

Kriza, Elisa. “Going Where? The Trope of Migration in Yiddish Movies from the Year 1939.” In Jewish Experiences Across the Americas: Local Histories through Global Lenses, edited by Katalin Franciska Rac and Lenny A. Ureña Valerio, 201-231. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2022. https://upf.com/book.asp?id=9781683402565.

van der Meer, Golda. “‘The World Exists and We Are Part of It’: The Inzikh’s Poetic Response to the Spanish Civil War.” In Jewish Imaginaries of the Spanish Civil War: In Search of Poetic Justice, edited by Cynthia Gabbay, 127-141. New York: Bloomsbury, 2022. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/jewish-imaginaries-of-the-spanish-civil-war-9781501379420/.

Panitz, Michael. “‘Vemen tsu nemen, un’ nit farshemen’: The Yiddish Revival in America as Cultural Self-Assertion." In Von der Exilerfahrung zur Exilforschung: zum Jahrhundertleben eines transatlantischen Brückenbauers: Festschrift zu Ehren von Guy Stern, edited by Frederick A. Lubich and Marlen Eckl, 585-597. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2022. https://verlag.koenigshausen-neumann.de/product/9783826075537-von-der-exilerfahrung-zur-exilforschung/#:~:text=Die%20vorliegende%20Festschrift%20zu%20seinem,diesseits%20und%20jenseits%20des%20Atlantiks.&text=l%C3%A4dt%20die%20Deutsche%20Nationalbibliothek%20in,Eintritt%20frei.

Person, Katarzyna and Agnieszka Żółkiewska. “Edition of Documents from the Ringelblum Archive (the Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto) in Stalinist Poland.” In Growing in the Shadow of Antifascism: Remembering the Holocaust in State-Socialist Eastern Europe, edited by Kata Bohus, Peter Hallama, and Stephan Stach, 21-38. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.7829/j.ctv280b7j3.7.

Pryt, Karina. “Cinemas and Cinema Audiences in the ‘Third Space’ in Warsaw, 1908-1939.” In Researching Historical Screen Audiences, edited by Kate Egan, Martin Ian Smith, and Jamie Terrill, 65-85. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctv2b8rwh6.10.

Quint, Alyssa and Michael Steinlauf. “Jewish Theatre in Poland.” In A History of Polish Theater, edited by Katarzyna Fazan, Michal Kobialka, and Bryce Lease, 124-147. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108619028.006.

Reichert, Carmen. “A Question of the Future: The Czernowitz Conference Beyond Yiddishism.” In Zukunft der Sprache — Zukunft der Nation?: Verhandlungen des Jiddischen und Jüdischen im Kontext der Czernowitzer Sprachkonferenz, edited by Carmen Reichert, Bettina Bannasch, and Alfred Wildfeuer, 111-140. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022. 10.1515/9783110755138.

Rokem, Freddie. "The Many Worlds of The Dybbuk." In Possession and Dispossession: Performing Jewish Ethnography in Jerusalem, edited by Lea Mauas, Michelle MacQueen and Diego Rotman, 108-120. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110786279-009.

Rotman, Diego. "Dancing with the Dead: Possession and Nationalism in the Old-New Film Der Dybbuk, 1937-2017." In Possession and Dispossession: Performing Jewish Ethnography in Jerusalem edited by Lea Mauas, Michelle MacQueen and Diego Rotman, 121-158. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110786279-010.

Rypson, Piotr. “‘Enchanted we whirl in the dance of youth’: Three Avant-Garde Books Designed by Female Artists in Łódź in 1921.” In Enchanted We Whirl in the Dance of Youth: The Jewish Avant-Garde in Łódź and the Artist Books of Farlag Achrid, 1921, edited by Darius Dekiert, 28-41. Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022. https://wydawnictwo.uni.lodz.pl/produkt/tanczymy-zaczarowani-taniec-mlodosci/.

Schäfer, Lea. “A Language is its Dialects: The Geolinguistics of Eastern Yiddish.” In Zukunft der Sprache — Zukunft der Nation?: Verhandlungen des Jiddischen un Jüdischen im Kontext der Czernowitzer Sprachkonferenz, edited by Carmen Reichert, Bettina Bannasch, and Alfred Wildfeuer, 37-68. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022. 10.1515/9783110755138.

Schulz, Miriam. “‘We Pledge, as if It Was the Highest Sanctum, to Preserve the Memory’: Sovietish Heymland, Facets of Holocaust Commemoration in the Soviet Union and the Cold War.” In Growing in the Shadow of Antifascism: Remembering the Holocaust in State-Socialist Eastern Europe, edited by Kata Bohus, Peter Hallama, and Stephan Stach, 253-274. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.7829/j.ctv280b7j3.17.

Shapiro, Michael. “Disruptive Strategies in Post-Shoah Versions of The Merchant of Venice.” In The Venice Ghetto: A Memory Space that Travels, edited by James E. Young, Chiara Camarda, Amanada K. Sharick, and Katharine G. Trostel, 115-130. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2022. muse.jhu.edu/book/98996.

Shreiber, Maeera. "Hiding in Plain Sight: Louis Zukofsky, Shame, and the Sorrows of Yiddish." In Holy Envy: Writing in the Jewish Christian Borderzone, 54-79. New York: Fordham University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781531501754-005.

Tempian, Monica. “‘Ver zenen mir?’ Children’s Voices in the Poetry of the Shoah.” In The Legacy of Ruth Klüger and the End of the Auschwitz Century, edited by Mark H. Gelber, 113-135. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110793239.

Weiser, Kalman. “Barg-aroyf or Uphill? Max Weinreich and the Czernowitz Conference.” In Zukunft der Sprache — Zukunft der Nation?: Verhandlungen des Jiddischen und Jüdischen im Kontext der Czernowitzer Sprachkonferenz, edited by Carmen Reichert, Bettina Bannasch, and Alfred Wildfeuer, 17-36. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022. 10.1515/9783110755138.


Special Issues


“Contemporary Haredi Yiddish Worldwide.” Journal of Jewish Languages, Volume 10, no. 2 (2022).

Belk, Zoë, Lily Kahn, Kriszta Eszter Szendrői, and Sonya Yampolskaya, “Introduction: Thematic Issue on Contemporary Haredi Yiddish Worldwide,” 156-168. https://doi.org/10.1163/22134638-bja10025.

Munro, Heather L. “The Politics of Language Choice in Haredi Communities in Israel,” 169-199. https://doi.org/10.1163/22134638-bja10026.

Assouline, Dalit. “Animacy-Based Verbal Agreement in Israeli Haredi Yiddish,” 200-223. https://doi.org/10.1163/22134638-bja10027.

Benedict, Eliyahu. “Yiddish among Former Haredim,” 224-266. https://doi.org/10.1163/22134638-bja10024.

Belk, Zoë, Eliyahu Benedict, Lily Kahn, and Sonya Yampolskaya, “Contemporary Haredi Yiddish Bilingual Pedagogical Materials,” 267-305. https://doi.org/10.1163/22134638-bja10021.

“Yiddish.” Journal of German Linguistics 34, no. 2 (June 2022).

Schäfer, Lea and Marion Aptroot. “Guest Editors’ Preface,” 107-109. https://doi.org/10.1017/S14705....

Assouline, Dalit. “Wh-Ever Constructions in American Hasidic Yiddish: The Rise of a Germanic Construction,” 110–38. https://doi.org/S1470542721000....

Belk, Zoë, Lily Kahn, Kriszta Eszter Szendrői. “Absence of Morphological Case and Gender Marking in Contemporary Hasidic Yiddish Worldwide,” 139-85. https://doi.org/10.1017/S14705....

Diesing, Molly and Beatrice Santorini. “On the Symmetry of V2 in Yiddish and Some of Its Consequences for Extraction,” 186-208. https://doi.org/10.1017/S14705....

Fleischer, Jürg. “Eastern Yiddish Relative Clauses in an Areal Perspective: An Analysis Based on the Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry,” 209-240. https://doi.org/10.1017/S14705....


Articles


Astro, Alan. "Is Yiddish Literature from Argentina Argentine Literature? Kehos Kliger, World Poet and Translator of Martín Fierro." Latin American Jewish Studies 1, no. 2 (December 2022): 7-18. https://doi.org/10.26613/lajs.1.2.14.

Baker, Zachary M. “Leib Malach’s Montreal Travelogue, 1930.” Canadian Jewish Studies/Études juives canadiennes 33 (2022): 79-98. https://doi.org/10.25071/1916-0925.40265.

Bauch, Nehama Grenimann and Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson. “Present Figures: Cultural Hybridity and Contradicting Emotions—An Interview with Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson.” Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women’s Studies & Gender Issues 40 (Fall 2022): 112-124. muse.jhu.edu/article/862438.

Belk, Zoe, Lily Okalani Kahn, Kriszta Eszter Szendrői, and Sonya Yampolskaya. “Translating COVID-19 information into Yiddish for the UK Hasidic community.” Linguistics Vanguard (2022): 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2020-0149.

Bilsky, Leora. “Rachel Auerbach and the Eichmann Trial: A New Conception of Victims’ Testimonies.” The Journal of Holocaust Research 36, no 4. (November 2022): 327-345. https://www.tandfonline.com/do....

Bleaman, Isaac L. “Minority language maintenance and the production-prescription interface: Number agreement in New York Yiddish.” Journal of Sociolinguistics 26, no. 2 (April 2022): 221– 245. https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12539.

Bleaman, Isaac L. “Predicate Fronting in Yiddish and Conditions on Multiple Copy Spell-Out.” Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 40, no. 2 (May 2022): 393-424. 10.1007/s11049-021-09512-3.

Borodkin, Katy, Rachel Orgal and Naomi Martzini. “Vocabulary learning in a novel language: is language similarity helpful in bilingual children?” International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 25, no. 10 (2022): 3673-3684. 10.1080/13670050.2022.2072680.

Burnett, Mark Thornton. “Yiddish Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, Translation and American Independent Cinema.” Shakespeare 18, no. 1 (March 2022): 83-97. 10.1080/17450918.2021.1981990.

Camden, Vera J. and Valentino L. Zullo. “‘It's that guttural, human voice; that's comics’: An Interview with Ken Krimstein.” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics (2022). 10.1080/21504857.2022.2150248.

Caplan, Jennifer. “American Jewish Humor.” Religion Compass 16, no. 11-12 (December 2022). https://doi.org/10.1111/rec3.12455.

Caplan, Marc. “A Disenchanted Elijah: The First World War, Conspiracy Theories, and Allegory in S. An-sky’s ‘Destruction of Galicia.’” Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry 34 (2022): 406-430. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2...;

Carpenter, Aaron. “Tied to German, Unable to Find a Foothold in Yiddish: Examining Kafka Editing Choices of Yitzhak Löwy’s ‘Vom jüdischen Theater.’” Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics 45, no. 1 (Spring 2022): 150-158. http://jcla.in/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/JCLA-45.1-Spring-2022_Aaron-Carpenter.pdf.

Chad, Jordan A. “Albert Einstein and ‘The Case of Juda Leman’: From Yiddish Physics to Hollywood.” Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 40, no. 1 (2022): 63-87. 10.1353/sho.2022.0003.

Chomard, Maria Tarasova. “‘The Fertile Soil of Growth, Life and Ideas’: Jewish Anarchist Solidarity in Winnipeg.” Canadian Jewish Studies/Études Juives Canadiennes 34 (Fall 2022): 13–35. https://cjs.journals.yorku.ca/....

Corrius, Montse and Eva Espasa. “Multilingualism, Music and Gendered Roles in Unorthodox.” Między Oryginałem a Przekładem, 55 (2022): 31-53. https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1029023.

Engel, Amir. “The Affirmation of Exile in Contemporary German-Jewish Literature: A Reading of Maxim Biller, Olga Grjasnowa, and Mati Shemoelof.” Prooftexts 39, no. 2 (2022): 234-256. muse.jhu.edu/article/859062.

Ertel, Rachel. “Yiddish in the present: an interview with Rachel Ertel.” Archives Juives 55, no. 1 (2022): 35-42. https://www.cairn-int.info/journal-archives-juives-2022-1-page-35.htm.

Estraikh, Gennady. “A Yiddish Newspaper at War with Yiddish: Abraham Cahan and the 1931 Language Debate in the New York Forverts.” In geveb (October 2022). https://ingeveb.org/articles/a-yiddish-newspaper-at-war-with-yiddish.

Faigin, Erin. "’There Are No Cultural Islands like Ceshinsky's’: Ceshinsky's Community Bookstore and Intellectual Space in Chicago, 1922–1966." Middle West Review 8, no. 2 (Spring 2022): 15-30. doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2022.0017.

Fay, Richard, Daniel J. Mawson and Caroline Bithell. “Intercultural musicking: learning through klezmer.” Language and Intercultural Communication 22, no. 2 (April 2022): 204-220. 10.1080/14708477.2022.2029467.

Feldman, Walter Zev. “Ethnogenesis and the Interrelationship of Musical Repertoires among the Jews of Eastern Europe.” Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 40, no. 2 (2022): 1-12. 10.1353/sho.2022.0020.

Finkin, Jordan D. “Workers’ Libraries in Interwar Poland: Selections Translated from a Yiddish Handbook.” Judaica Librarianship 22 (2022): 84-102. https://ajlpublishing.org/index.php/jl/article/view/723/621.

Finlay, Joseph. “‘Wogs’ and ‘Kikes’: the Jewish Tribune – West Indian World Controversy of 1978.” Jewish Culture and History 23, no. 4 (October 2022): 403-415. 10.1080/1462169X.2022.2135859.

Frankel, Hazel. “Belief and Doubt in the Landscape and Holocaust Poems of David Fram (1903-88).” Literature and Theology 36, no. 1 (March 2022): 96-113. https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frab032.

Fuks, David. “Unzere kinder, or how to remain Jewish in Poland after the Holocaust.” Revue d’Histoire de la Shoah 216, no. 2 (July 2022): 195-214. https://www.cairn-int.info/load_pdf.php?ID_ARTICLE=E_RHSHO_216_0195&download=1.

Georgiou, Nadia and Golda van der Meer. “Degrees of Marginality: The Representation of Women Poets in 20th Century Modern Greek and Yiddish Poetry Anthologies in English Translation.” The AALITRA Review 17 (October 2022): 58-75. https://ojs.latrobe.edu.au/ojs/index.php/AALITRA/article/view/1227/1100.

Grafen, Alex and William Pimlott. “Jewish Art and Yiddish Art History: Leo Koenig’s Renesans.” Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 40, no. 1 (2022): 2-37. 10.1353/sho.2022.0001.

Glauber-Zimra, Samuel and Boaz Huss. “‘No religion could be more spiritual than ours’: Anglo-Jewish spiritualist societies in the interwar period.” Jewish Historical Studies 53, no. 1 (March 2022): 83-104. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.4....

Gollance, Sonia. "Dance as a Tool of Pleasure and Humiliation in I. J. Singer’s The Brothers Ashkenazi." Prooftexts 39, no. 3 (2022): 422-453. muse.jhu.edu/article/875647.

Guzy-Sprague, Zoë. “The Mishpacha of Language: Yiddish and Belonging.” Changing English 29, no 2 (May 2022): 185-188. 10.1080/1358684X.2022.2027742.

Halpern, Stefanie. “A History of YIVO’s Prewar Archival Collections from 1925 to 2001.” Judaica Librarianship 22 (December 2022): 20–40. https://doi.org/10.14263/22/20....

Heller, Erga. “Dare to Dress: Cross-Dressing and Intercultural Shifts within an Israeli Literary Children’s Closet.” Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature 60, no. 4 (2022): 28-37. 10.1353/bkb.2022.0057.

Hergenröther, Oana. "Mame-Lushn: The State Jewish Theatre of Bucharest." Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues 40 (2022): 89-108. muse.jhu.edu/article/862450.

Herskovitz, Yaakov. "Before the Beginning: Specters of Monolingualism in Opatoshu and Brenner." Prooftexts 39, no. 2 (2022): 208-233. muse.jhu.edu/article/859061.

Jelínková, Andrea. “The Publishing Practice and Reading Culture of Moravian Jews in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century.” Judaica Bohemiae 57, no. 1 (2022): 33-61. https://www.ceeol.com/search/a....

Kahn, Lily. “Jewish Cultural Traditions within a Modernising Early Soviet Framework: Y. Goldberg's 1935 Yiddish Othello.” Shakespeare 18, no. 1 (March 2022): 62-82. 10.1080/17450918.2021.1983635.

Kamusella, Tomasz Dominik. “Languages and Morality in Postwar Europe: The German and Austrian Abandonment of Yiddish.” Journal of Nationalism, Memory & Language Politics, 16 no. 2 (2022): 172-193. https://www.ceeol.com/search/a....

Kamusella, Tomasz Dominik. “Warsaw and Yiddish: Europe’s Once Largest Jewish City.” Wortfolge. Szyk Słów 6 (2022): 1-29. https://doi.org/10.31261/WSS.2022.06.10.

Kerner, Amy. “Indios, Negros, and Criollos: The Racial Anxieties of Argentine Yiddish.” Jewish Social Studies 27, no. 1 (2022): 83-114. https://doi.org/10.2979/jewiso....

Khazdan, Evgenia. "The Folk Song of the Ashkenazim: The Problem of Genre Definition." Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 40, no. 2 (2022): 58-88. doi.org/10.1353/sho.2022.0023.

Kirzane, Jessica. "Eyzehu M'koman Shel Zevakhim? [What is the Site of the Ritual Sacrifice?] Yiddish Writers Encounter the Chicago Meatpacking Industry." Middle West Review 8, no. 2 (2022): 31-44. doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2022.0018.

Koprowskia, Karolina. “Facing down the Watershed: The Drama Bay nakht afn altn mark (A Night in the Old Marketplace) by I.L. Peretz as a Carnival Mystery Play.” Scripta Judaica Cracoviensia, no. 19 (2022): 15-28. https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1098634.

Krogh, Steffen. “The Germanization of Eastern Yiddish in the nineteenth and twentieth Centuries: A Critical Appraisal of Positions and Opinions in the Debate.” Zeitschrift für Deutsche Philologie 104, no. 1 (March 2022): 79-101. https://doi.org/10.37307/j.1868-7806.2022.01.

Leitane, Iveta. “Gastro-Poetics in Lithuanian Yiddish Literature of the Interwar Period: The Early Work of Moyshe Kulbak (1896-1937).” Colloquia 49 (2022): 13-31. https://doi.org/10.51554/Coll.22.49.02.

Lewis, Yitzhak. "Entre Shtetl y Colonia: Sholem Aleichem, Alberto Gerchunoff, and the Image of Loss." Latin American Jewish Studies 1, no. 2 (December 2022): 29-40. https://doi.org/10.26613/lajs.1.2.16.

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Mendel, Yonatan. “On Palestinian Yiddish and Ashkenazi Arabic in 18-19 century Palestine: a language-oriented new look on Jewish-Arab relations.” British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 49, no. 2 (2022): 204-222. 10.1080/13530194.2020.1778444.

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Dissertations


Auketayeva, Laura. "Experiences of European Jewish Refugees in the Soviet Interior, 1939-1946." PhD diss., American University, 2022. https://www.proquest.com/docview/2753333526.

Cuza, Alexandru Ioan. “Jewish Intellectuals of Iași in the Second Half of the 19th Century and at the Beginning of the 20th Century: Elias, Moses and Wilhelm Schwarzfeld.” PhD diss., Alezandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, 2022. http://history.uaic.ro/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Rezumat-EN-irimia.pdf.

Johnson, Matthew. "Faltering Language: On German-Yiddish Literature." PhD diss., University of Chicago, 2022. https://www.proquest.com/docview/2706760694.

Levene, Hannah. “Greasepaint: The composition of new butch literature.” PhD diss., University of Roehampton, 2022. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=2&uin=uk.bl.ethos.865198.

Lightstone, Vardit. "Performing Migrant Identity: Canadian Yiddish Personal Narratives." PhD diss., University of Toronto, 2022. http://www.proquest.com/docview/2744605758/.

Pimlott, William. “Yiddish in Britain: immigration, culture and politics, 1896-1910.” PhD diss., University College London, 2022. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.859309.

Sidky, Sean. “No Letters Arrive Anymore: American Yiddish Holocaust Literature.” PhD diss., Indiana University,  2022. https://www.proquest.com/docview/2676526850/.

Wagner, Jason. “Yiddish Ruthenias: Home Landscapes in the Modernist Poetry of Moyshe Kulbak and Dovid Hofshteyn in the Age of Revolutions and National Revivals in Eastern Europe.” PhD diss., University of Michigan, 2022. https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/174645.

Weinshel, Meyer Jacob. “Dos eygene Daytshland: Anthologizing Jewish Multilingualism in and Beyond the Habsburg Empire.” PhD diss., University of Minnesota, 2022.  https://www.proquest.com/docview/2692681092/.

MLA STYLE
Hoffenberg, Elena. “The Latest in Yiddish Studies in English: 2022.” In geveb, April 2023: https://ingeveb.org/blog/the-latest-in-yiddish-studies-in-english-2022.
CHICAGO STYLE
Hoffenberg, Elena. “The Latest in Yiddish Studies in English: 2022.” In geveb (April 2023): Accessed May 16, 2025.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Elena Hoffenberg

Elena Hoffenberg is a PhD student in modern Jewish history at the University of Chicago.