Publications
Books (authored)
Catalog of the Samuel Adler Collection of the Klau Library, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati (Cincinnati, OH: Klau Library, 2021)
Exile as Home: The Cosmopolitan Poetics of Leyb Naydus (Cincinnati, OH: Hebrew Union College Press, 2017)
An Inch or Two of Time: Time and Space in Jewish Modernisms (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2015)
A Rhetorical Conversation: Jewish Discourse in Modern Yiddish Literature (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2010)
The Eighteenth-Century Language Text of Jüdischer Sprach-Meister: A West-Yiddish Dialogue Together with an English Translation and Introduction (Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2009)
Books (edited)
Co-editor, with Gennady Estraikh, Kerstin Hoge, and Mikhail Krutikov, Translating Sholem Aleichem: History, Politics, and Art. Studies in Yiddish 10 (London: Legenda, 2012)
Co-editor, with Joseph Sherman, Gennady Estraikh, and David Shneer, A Captive of the Dawn: The Life and Work of Peretz Markish (1895-1952). Studies in Yiddish 9 (London: Legenda, 2011)
Articles
“The View from the Jews’ Rock: Jewish Poetic Emplacement in Crimea” East European Jewish Affairs 52:2-3 (2022): [forthcoming]
“The Revolution is a City: Moyshe Kulbak’s Poem ‘The City’” East European Jewish Affairs 50:1-2 (2020): 42-56.
“To Organize Beauty: The Sonnets of Mani Leyb” Studies in American Jewish Literature 34.1 (2015): 70-93.
“What Does It Mean to Write a Modern Jewish Sonnet: Some Challenges of Yiddish and Hebrew” Journal of Jewish Identities 7.1 (2014): 79-107.
“Shooting Crows with a Canon: Notes on the Poetics of Shaul Tshernikhovski’s Early Works” Prooftexts 30.2 (2010): 263-290.
“Jewish Jokes, Yiddish Storytelling, and Sholem Aleichem: A Discursive Approach” Jewish Social Studies 16.1 (2009): 85-110; (an earlier version of this article appeared in: Shlomo Berger, ed. Amsterdam Yiddish Symposium 4: “Yiddish Storytelling” [Amsterdam: Menasseh ben Israel Institute, 2009]). Reprinted in: Leonard J. Greenspoon, ed., Jews and Humor. Studies in Jewish Civilization 22 (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2011)
“Constellating Hebrew and Yiddish Avant-Gardes: The Example of Markish and Shlonsky” Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 8.1 (2009): 1-22.
“Markish, Trakl, and the Temporaesthetic” Modernism/modernity 15.4 (2008): 783-801.
“‘With Footsteps Marking Roundabout Paths’: Jewish Poetry on Crimea” East European Jewish Affairs 38.2 (2008): 121-142.
“The Poetics of Schadenfreude: N. B. Minkov on the Edge of Yiddish Diction” The Jewish Quarterly Review 98.1 (2008): 41-61.
“Enantiodrama: Enantiosemia in Arabic and Beyond” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 68.3 (2005): 369-386.
Essays in Edited Volumes
“A Plummy Sonnet by Mani Leyb” in: Dora Malech and Laura T. Smith, eds., Sonnets from the American: Essays and Poems (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, [forthcoming])
“Yiddish Ethnographic Poetics and Moyshe Kulbak’s ‘Vilne’” in: Andreas Kilcher and Gabriella Safran, eds., Writing Jewish Culture: Paradoxes in Ethnography (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016): 94-115.
“Der Nister’s Hebrew Nosegay” in: Gennady Estraikh, Kerstin Hoge, and Mikhail Krutikov, eds. Uncovering the Hidden: The Works and Life of Der Nister. Studies in Yiddish 12 (London: Legenda, 2014): 27-40.
“Time and Space as Revolutionary Principles in Interwar Soviet Yiddish Poetry” in: Daniela Mantovan, ed., Yiddish Poets and the Soviet Union, 1917-1948 (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2012): 39-57.
“In the Pot, Half-Melted: Sacco-Vanzetti Poems and Yiddish-American Identity” in: Lara Rabinovitch, Shiri Goren, and Hannah Pressman, eds., Choosing Yiddish: New Frontiers of Language and Culture (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2012): 47-64.
“The Consolation of Sadness: The Curious Exile of Dovid Hofshteyn’s Troyer” in: Marion Aptroot, Efrat Gal-Ed, Roland Gruschka, and Simon Neuberg, eds. Leket. Jiddistik heute | Yiddish Studies Today | yidishe shtudyes haynt (Düsseldorf: Düsseldorf University Press, 2012): 91-107.
“The Lighter Side of Babel: Perets Markish’s Urban Poetics” in: Joseph Sherman, Gennady Estraikh, David Shneer, and Jordan Finkin, eds. A Captive of the Dawn: The Life and Work of Peretz Markish (1895-1952). Studies in Yiddish 9 (London: Legenda, 2011).
“‘Like Fires in Overgrown Forests’: Moyshe Kulbak’s Contemporary Berlin Poetics” in: Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, eds. Yiddish in Weimar Berlin: At the Crossroads of Diaspora Politics and Culture. Studies in Yiddish 8 (London: Legenda, 2010), 73-88.
Exile as Home: The Cosmopolitan Poetics of Leyb Naydus (Cincinnati, OH: Hebrew Union College Press, 2017)
An Inch or Two of Time: Time and Space in Jewish Modernisms (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2015)
A Rhetorical Conversation: Jewish Discourse in Modern Yiddish Literature (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2010)
The Eighteenth-Century Language Text of Jüdischer Sprach-Meister: A West-Yiddish Dialogue Together with an English Translation and Introduction (Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2009)
Books (edited)
Co-editor, with Gennady Estraikh, Kerstin Hoge, and Mikhail Krutikov, Translating Sholem Aleichem: History, Politics, and Art. Studies in Yiddish 10 (London: Legenda, 2012)
Co-editor, with Joseph Sherman, Gennady Estraikh, and David Shneer, A Captive of the Dawn: The Life and Work of Peretz Markish (1895-1952). Studies in Yiddish 9 (London: Legenda, 2011)
Articles
“The View from the Jews’ Rock: Jewish Poetic Emplacement in Crimea” East European Jewish Affairs 52:2-3 (2022): [forthcoming]
“The Revolution is a City: Moyshe Kulbak’s Poem ‘The City’” East European Jewish Affairs 50:1-2 (2020): 42-56.
“To Organize Beauty: The Sonnets of Mani Leyb” Studies in American Jewish Literature 34.1 (2015): 70-93.
“What Does It Mean to Write a Modern Jewish Sonnet: Some Challenges of Yiddish and Hebrew” Journal of Jewish Identities 7.1 (2014): 79-107.
“Shooting Crows with a Canon: Notes on the Poetics of Shaul Tshernikhovski’s Early Works” Prooftexts 30.2 (2010): 263-290.
“Jewish Jokes, Yiddish Storytelling, and Sholem Aleichem: A Discursive Approach” Jewish Social Studies 16.1 (2009): 85-110; (an earlier version of this article appeared in: Shlomo Berger, ed. Amsterdam Yiddish Symposium 4: “Yiddish Storytelling” [Amsterdam: Menasseh ben Israel Institute, 2009]). Reprinted in: Leonard J. Greenspoon, ed., Jews and Humor. Studies in Jewish Civilization 22 (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2011)
“Constellating Hebrew and Yiddish Avant-Gardes: The Example of Markish and Shlonsky” Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 8.1 (2009): 1-22.
“Markish, Trakl, and the Temporaesthetic” Modernism/modernity 15.4 (2008): 783-801.
“‘With Footsteps Marking Roundabout Paths’: Jewish Poetry on Crimea” East European Jewish Affairs 38.2 (2008): 121-142.
“The Poetics of Schadenfreude: N. B. Minkov on the Edge of Yiddish Diction” The Jewish Quarterly Review 98.1 (2008): 41-61.
“Enantiodrama: Enantiosemia in Arabic and Beyond” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 68.3 (2005): 369-386.
Essays in Edited Volumes
“A Plummy Sonnet by Mani Leyb” in: Dora Malech and Laura T. Smith, eds., Sonnets from the American: Essays and Poems (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, [forthcoming])
“Yiddish Ethnographic Poetics and Moyshe Kulbak’s ‘Vilne’” in: Andreas Kilcher and Gabriella Safran, eds., Writing Jewish Culture: Paradoxes in Ethnography (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016): 94-115.
“Der Nister’s Hebrew Nosegay” in: Gennady Estraikh, Kerstin Hoge, and Mikhail Krutikov, eds. Uncovering the Hidden: The Works and Life of Der Nister. Studies in Yiddish 12 (London: Legenda, 2014): 27-40.
“Time and Space as Revolutionary Principles in Interwar Soviet Yiddish Poetry” in: Daniela Mantovan, ed., Yiddish Poets and the Soviet Union, 1917-1948 (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2012): 39-57.
“In the Pot, Half-Melted: Sacco-Vanzetti Poems and Yiddish-American Identity” in: Lara Rabinovitch, Shiri Goren, and Hannah Pressman, eds., Choosing Yiddish: New Frontiers of Language and Culture (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2012): 47-64.
“The Consolation of Sadness: The Curious Exile of Dovid Hofshteyn’s Troyer” in: Marion Aptroot, Efrat Gal-Ed, Roland Gruschka, and Simon Neuberg, eds. Leket. Jiddistik heute | Yiddish Studies Today | yidishe shtudyes haynt (Düsseldorf: Düsseldorf University Press, 2012): 91-107.
“The Lighter Side of Babel: Perets Markish’s Urban Poetics” in: Joseph Sherman, Gennady Estraikh, David Shneer, and Jordan Finkin, eds. A Captive of the Dawn: The Life and Work of Peretz Markish (1895-1952). Studies in Yiddish 9 (London: Legenda, 2011).
“‘Like Fires in Overgrown Forests’: Moyshe Kulbak’s Contemporary Berlin Poetics” in: Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, eds. Yiddish in Weimar Berlin: At the Crossroads of Diaspora Politics and Culture. Studies in Yiddish 8 (London: Legenda, 2010), 73-88.