“American Yiddish Literature”
Blog
Review of Isaac Bashevis Singer's play "Enemies: A Love Story" at Lviv Theater
Vladyslava Moskalets
Article
The Yiddish Columbus: Critical Counter-History and the Remapping of American Jewish Literature
Rachel Rubinstein
Glantz’s masterwork Kristobal Kolon offers a transnational vision of the Americas that insists—in Yiddish—on its Jewish, Muslim, indigenous and African origins, suggesting a new geography for American Jewish literature that exceeds the boundaries of what we understand the Americas and Jewishness to be, and challenging our expectations of what Yiddish literature can contain.
Nov 09, 2022
Review
Review of Jewish American Writing and World Literature: Maybe to Millions, Maybe to Nobody by Saul Noam Zaritt
Danny Luzon
Texts & Translation
די באַלאַדע פֿון מײַן אומעט
My Tale of Woe
Moyshe-Leyb Halpern
Translation by Michael Shapiro
Review
Review of A Jewish Refugee in New York: Rivke Zilberg’s Journal by Kadya Molodovsky, Translated by Anita Norich
Rachel Rubinstein
Texts & Translation
לעצטע מעשׂים־טובֿים פֿון אַ טאָמײטע
A Tomato's Last Good Deeds
Getsl Selikovitch
Translation by Michael Shapiro
Review
Review of The Cambridge History of Jewish American Literature, edited by Hana Wirth-Nesher
Adriana X. Jacobs
Texts & Translation
משיח אין אַמעריקע
Messiah in America
Moyshe Nadir
Translation by Michael Shapiro
Article
Af der shvel un in der fremd: A feuilleton on Yiddish, Race, and the American Literary Imagination
Adam Zachary Newton
Texts & Translation
סאַקאָ און וואַנזעטיס מאָנטיק
Sacco and Vanzetti’s Monday