“socialism”
Review
Review of Nick Underwood's Yiddish Paris: Staging Nation and Community in Interwar France
Sarah Biskowitz
Today's Yiddishists can find historical models for politically-engaged cultural activism in Nick Underwood's account of interwar Paris.
Feb 07, 2024
Review
Review of Adi Mahalel's The Radical Isaac: I. L. Peretz and the Rise of Jewish Socialism
Elazar Elhanan
Reading Peretz as a political thinker, Adi Mahalel offers a case for writing socialism into the center of the rise of modern Yiddish literature.
Jan 29, 2024
Review
Review of Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine by Amelia M. Glaser
Emily Robins Sharpe
Oct 21, 2021
Review
Review of Transatlantic Russian Jewishness by Gennady Estraikh
Brian Dolber
Estraikh paints a vibrant picture of Yiddish socialism’s fluidity and its many tendencies as it responded to the tensions and traumas of the twentieth century.
Oct 12, 2021
Texts & Translation
ברוך דיין אמת
Blessed is the True Judge
Leon Kobrin
Translation by Jessica Kirzane
A short story from Leon Kobrin's 1903 collection Geto dramen.
May 30, 2018
Texts & Translation
די ייִדישע יוניאָנס אין אַמעריקע
The Jewish Unions in America
Bernard Weinstein
Translation by Maurice Wolfthal
Bernard Weinstein's memoir recounting the history of Jewish labor unions in the United States.
Jun 29, 2017
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.
May 22, 2016