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Naomi Brenner. Lingering Bilingualism: Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures in Contact. Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art Series. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2016. 320 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8156-3409-6; $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8156-3423-2.
Reviewed by Itay Zutra (University of Manitoba) Published on H-Judaic (October, 2019) Commissioned by Katja Vehlow (University of South Carolina)
Szonja Ráhel Komoróczy. Yiddish Printing in Hungary: An Annotated Bibliography. Budapest: Center for Jewish Studies at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2011. 355 pp. ISBN 978-963-87162-4-8.
Reviewed by Zachary M. Baker (Stanford University Libraries) Published on H-Judaic (July, 2013) Commissioned by Jason Kalman
On the Margins of Yiddishland
Allison Schachter. Diasporic Modernisms: Hebrew and Yiddish Literature in the Twentieth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. x + 198 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-981263-9.
Reviewed by Marc Caplan (Johns Hopkins University) Published on H-Judaic (November, 2012) Commissioned by Jason Kalman
At Home in the Diaspora
Marc Caplan. How Strange the Change: Language, Temporality, and Narrative Form in Peripheral Modernisms. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011. xiv + 342 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8047-7476-5.
Reviewed by Itay Zutra (University of Manitoba) Published on H-Judaic (January, 2013) Commissioned by Jason Kalman
Harriet Murav. Music from a Speeding Train: Jewish Literature in Post-Revolution Russia. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011. 416 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8047-7443-7.
Reviewed by Jarrod Tanny (University of North Carolina at Wilmington) Published on H-Judaic (March, 2012) Commissioned by Jason Kalman
The (Soviet) People of the (Soviet) Book
Dan Miron. From Continuity to Contiguity: Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010. 560 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8047-6200-7.
Reviewed by Itay Zutra (Yeshiva University and YIVO) Published on H-Judaic (November, 2011) Commissioned by Jason Kalman
Continuity, Contiguity, and the Modern Jewish Literary Complex
Jeremy Asher Dauber. In the Demon's Bedroom: Yiddish Literature and the Early Modern. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. x + 399 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-14175-7.
Reviewed by Zelda Kahan Newman (Lehman College) Published on H-Judaic (September, 2011) Commissioned by Jason Kalman
The Supernatural Reconsidered
Jordan D. Finkin. A Rhetorical Conversation: Jewish Discourse in Modern Yiddish Literature. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010. x + 202 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-271-03630-4.
Reviewed by Asya Vaisman (Indiana University) Published on H-Judaic (August, 2011) Commissioned by Jason Kalman
Associations, Analogies, and Allusions
