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Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature Ruth R. Wisse also rose during the open question period to ask about the administration's responsiveness to student voices...
Drawing on the traditions of Yiddish storytelling and on his visions of nearly identical Orthodox Jewish communities in New York and in Jerusalem, Englander presents a group of stories relevant both in and outside of the religious sphere. The readers may find some of Englander's untranslated Yiddish and Hebrew phrases and his references to Orthodox Jewish customs unfamiliar, but the collection is accessible to anyone. It is not necessary to come from a demanding religious tradition in order to empathize with his characters...
...outcome of the plot are the ways in which these two characters cope with their circumstances. One, Pinchas, is trapped in Stalin's vengeful Russia, and the other, Natan, lives in a nation experiencing a different sort of convulsive conflict. One story is told in the voice of a Yiddish storyteller, and the other in the voice of an up-to-date journalist/poet. Framing the collection, these two stories delineate Englander's troubled path from history to modernity and between Orthodoxy and secularism...
Elkies' and Dauber's opera Yussele Solevey, an adaptation of a book by the same name by Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem, is the first original opera performed by the Lowell House opera...
Elkies mentioned the project to Dauber, who had graduated from Harvard and begun working towards his Ph.D. in Hebrew and Yiddish Literature as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University...