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MIRIAM SHAVIV: New & Noteworthy
It is often assumed, according to Dovid Katz, one of the foremost academics in Yiddish studies, that Yiddish entered the arena of Jewish history in relatively recent years.
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Classic Yiddish Stories of S.Y. Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and I.L. Peretz
Edited by Ken Frieden, Translated by Ken Frieden, Ted Gorelick, and Michael Wex Syracuse University Press 271pp., $19.95
JEREMY DAUBER: Tackling a literary tradition
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From the Lower East Side to Hollywood: Jews in American Popular Culture
By Paul Buhle, Verso Publishing 304pp., $25
DAVID BRINN: Yiddishe pop
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The Spectacular Difference: Selected Poems of Zelda
Translated, with an Introduction and Notes, by Marcia Falk Hebrew Union College Press 270pp., $26.95
AVIYA KUSHNER: Legends of Zelda
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When Germs Travel: Six Major Epidemics That Have Invaded America Since 1900 and the Fears They Have Unleashed
By Howard Markel Pantheon Books 263pp., $25
JEREMY BROWN: Medical profiling
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