Avraham Novershtern is professor emeritus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he served as the Joseph and Ida Berman Professor of Yiddish. He is currently the director of Beit Schalom Aleichem in Tel Aviv and the head of the bibliographical project "Index to Yiddish Periodicals".
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Avraham Novershtern
Translation by Avi Steinhart
How does one write about romance in Yiddish? Sholem Aleichem’s 1888 novel Stempenyu poses this question through an examination of the gendered limitations on Jewish literary love.
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