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Review Review of Glenn Dynner’s The Light of Learning: Hasidism in Poland on the Eve of the Holocaust CITE THIS Glenn Dynner. The Light of Learning: Hasidism in Poland on the Eve of the Holocaust. Oxford University Press, 2023. 320 pp. $39.95 Against the fraught intersections of emancipation, acculturation, assimilation, and colonization, institutionalized Torah education emerged as a form of Hasidic cultural resistance powerful enough to survive the Holocaust.

Review Review of Warsaw Testament by Rokhl Auerbach, trans. Kassow CITE THIS Warsaw Testament by Rokhl Auerbach, translated by Samuel Kassow (White Goat Press, 2024). 413 pages. $32.95. On July 26th, 1942, Rokhl Auerbach handed what she believed to be her life’s work—collected writings, interviews, and ephemera, from inside the Warsaw Ghetto—to Emmanuel Ringelblum. Liquidation of the ghetto had begun four days earlier.

Pedagogy Fishl’s Yiddish Group: An Interview with Assia Azenkot CITE THIS Fishl Kut­ner, z”l, 1926 – 2024. INTRODUCTION Philip ​“Fishl” Kut­ner, z”l, was a vision­ary leader in con­nect­ing Yid­dish speak­ers to one anoth­er and pro­mot­ing a robust vol­un­teer-run Yid­dish­land. A retired sci­ence teacher from New Jer­sey who spoke Yid­dish from the home, in his free time Kut­ner orga­nized a local Yid­dish con­ver­sa­tion group in San Fran­cis­co.

Blog Yiddish and the Jewish Voice in The Zone of Interest CITE THIS Still from The Zone of Inter­est (2023), cour­tesy of A24. A little over an hour into Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest, the wind shifts. A Polish woman living a few miles downwind of Auschwitz catches the breeze as it passes through her curtains and into her darkened kitchen.

Texts & Translation "בלי קדיש“ או "דער לעבעדיקער יתום" “Kaddish Denied” or “The Living Orphan” CITE THIS A Sovi­et-era por­trait of the Frierdik­er Rebbe, Rab­bi Yosef Yitzchak Schneer­sohn (1880−1950), clan­des­tine­ly pre­served by Chabad has­sidim in the after­math of his forced depar­ture from the USSR in 1927. Cour­tesy of Rab­bi Sholom Ber Chaikin via Chabad​.org. INTRODUCTION Avro­hom Eliy­ohu Plotkin was born in Raha­chow (in present-day Belarus) in the Russ­ian Empire, in 1888.

Pedagogy REESOURCES: Rethinking Eastern Europe - Revolutionizing the Field with Primary Sources CITE THIS Choosing interesting and engaging primary sources to work with in the classroom is a weighty task for any history professor, a task that can become a headache before the semester even begins. I recently taught Ukrainian and Eastern European history abroad, after having taught the subject extensively in Ukraine, and this English-language context presented me with new challenges.

Blog Your Guide to Yiddish and In geveb at the 2023 AJS Conference CITE THIS INTRODUCTION The days are get­ting short­er, there’s a chill in the air, and many Jew­ish Stud­ies schol­ars are count­ing down the days until the annu­al con­fer­ence of the Asso­ci­a­tion for Jew­ish Stud­ies. This year, the con­fer­ence will take place in San Fran­cis­co from Decem­ber 17 to 19.

Texts & Translation New Yiddish Poetry from the Israel-Gaza War CITE THIS Image: ​“Death with a Woman in His Lap”(Tod mit Frau in Schoss, 1921), a wood­cut by Käthe Kollwitz. INTRODUCTION Four months have passed since the Hamas attacks of Octo­ber 7th and the start of the war in Gaza. As edi­tors and schol­ars of Yid­dish Stud­ies, we have been anguished by the dev­as­ta­tion, loss and trau­ma of this con­flict.

Review Review of Lisa Richter’s Nautilus and Bone; An Auto/biography in Poems Maia Evrona CITE THIS Lisa Richter. Nau­tilus and Bone: An Auto/​biography in poems. Cal­gary: Fron­tenac House Poet­ry, 2020. $19.95 CAD. Published in 2020, Lisa Richter’s collection of original English-language poetry, Nautilus and Bone; An Auto/biography in Poems, is built on an intriguing foundation.

CITE THIS Image: ​“A Sun­ny Day” by Shneur Vaser­man, in Dobele: Kinder-Lid­er (Buenos Aires: Ikuf, 1946), illus­tra­tions by M. Eyt­shel­boym, Gedaliye, Y. Mitler, Kh. Sololovs­ki, and M. Faygenblym Tayere leyeners, Dear readers: It’s that time of year again, when we bid you zayt gezunt for a few months and head off to enjoy a summer publishing break. It’s been a very eventful publishing year full of variety.