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On Translating (and Not Being) Jonathan Boyarin

Nao­mi Sei­d­man reflects on hav­ing trans­lat­ed Jonathan Boyarin’s Yid­dish Sci­ence and the Post­mod­ern and asks: what pow­er does Yid­dish have in our world of non­stop chat­ter, of ubiq­ui­tous and gen­er­al­ized mar­gin­al­i­ty, of plan­e­tary precarity?

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