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Review
Review of Polish Jewish Culture Beyond the Capital, edited by Halina Goldberg and Nancy Sinkoff with Natalia Aleksiun
Elena Hoffenberg
Texts & Translation
פֿראַדל שטאָק
Fradl Shtok
Rokhl Auerbach
Translation by Anita Norich, David Mazower and Faith Jones
Review
Treating Emotions in a Tempest: Review of Amy Simon’s Emotions in Yiddish Ghetto Diaries
Julie Dawson
Review
Review of Annegret Oehme's The Knight without Boundaries: Yiddish and German Arthurian Wingalois Adaptations
Ossnat Sharon-Pinto
Review
Review of Rebecca Margolis's Yiddish Lives On: Strategies of Language Transmission
Miriam Borden
Rebecca Margolis' Yidish Lebt: Yiddish Lives On: Strategies of Language Transmission explores how a diverse range of native, heritage, and new speakers have ensured not only the continuity of a minority language widely thought to be endangered, but evolved Yiddish into a site of creative renewal in the Jewish world.
Jun 08, 2023
Review
Review of Marina Mogilner’s A Race for the Future: Scientific Visions of Modern Russian Jewishness
James Nadel
Blog
Songs to Make It Better: A Review of the Third and Fourth Unternationals by Daniel Kahn and Psoy Korolenko
Uri Schreter
Review
A Double Dose of Early Twentieth-Century Yiddish Talush-hood: Two New Translations by Daniel Kennedy
Ri J. Turner
In new translations by Daniel Kennedy, Hersh Dovid Nomberg’s Warsaw Stories (White Goat Press) and Zalman Shneour’s A Death: Notes of a Suicide (Wakefield Press) can rightfully be labeled “classic”; they reach across time and space to name an eternal — and unromantic — facet of human experience.
Apr 29, 2020
Review
Review of A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts From the First Century to 1969
Gregg Drinkwater
Review
Translated and Improved: Ilan Stavans’ On Self-Translation: Meditations on Language
Yaakov Herskovitz
Blog
Jewish Victims, Jewish Virtue, but Not Much Jewish History: A Review of The Argentinian Prostitute Play
Tova Benjamin
Review
Review of Queer Expectations: A Genealogy of Jewish Women's Poetry by Zohar Weiman-Kelman
Shoshana Olidort
Review
Charlie, [gesturing to Fascist General Franco on screen] fucking swine isn’t he?
William Pimlott
Review
Review of A Rich Brew: How Cafés Created Modern Jewish Culture by Shachar M. Pinsker