Miriam Udel’s Never Better! The Modern Jewish Picaresque
Miriam Udel's new book travels with the genre of the picaresque from the shtetl to the USA to the USSR and brings it into the twentieth century.
Oct 19, 2016
Translingualism Today: A Review of Naomi Brenner’s Lingering Bilingualism
Naomi Brenner's new book complicates the story of the Hebrew-Yiddish "language wars" and argues that Jewish translingualism continues well into the 20th century.
Sep 18, 2016
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Bialik's Shoes
If Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik had left his slippers in your house, would you give them back? Read how Sholem Aleichem handled this problem.
Oct 20, 2015