Visiting Assistant Professor of Yiddish Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, Adi Mahalel received his doctoral degree in Yiddish and Hebrew Studies at Columbia University. He is writing a book on the radical period of Yiddish and Hebrew writer Y. L. Peretz. Mahalel's articles have appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as AJS REVIEW, Studies in American Jewish Literature, Israel Studies Review, and Kesher: Journal of Media and Communications History in Israel and the Jewish World. Mahalel was a culture columnist at the Yiddish Forward.
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University of Maryland, College Park
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Nit dos dorf, nit di kretshme: Speaking About Jewish Taverns in the Works of Sholem Aleichem
Adi Mahalel
The tavern is a fixture of the shtetl universe—but it also exists on the margins, where, for Sholem Aleichem, you can also find the chaos of modernity.
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Article
Weaving The Revolution: I. L. Peretz The Social Protest Writer
Adi Mahalel
In this peer-reviewed article, Adi Mahalel follows Peretz’s search, through new literary styles, for new forms of revolutionary politics.
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Texts & Translation
קיביאַ
Qibya
Jacob Glatstein
Translation by Adi Mahalel
A new translation of Jacob Glatstein’s 1956 poem about the “Qibya affair.”
Feb 21, 2016