What might Yiddish studies stand to gain from recent books seeking to contextualize how the meaning and uses of term “ghetto” have changed over centuries?
Created out of necessity as a response to Tsarist repression, Hillis argues that circles of Russian émigré groups, or “colonies,” represented a crucial space in the development of Russian politics.
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.
The history of Smocza, a Jewish Street in Warsaw, is not the story of the world-renowned figures, but rather of every person who ever lived or died there, including those who are lost to our collective memory.