Yiddish Fiction and the Crisis of Modernity, 1905-1914 By Mikhail Krutikov Stanford University Press, 248 pages, $55. * * *| Yiddish and the Left: Papers of the Third Mendel Friedman International ...

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Dinaw Mengestu — acclaimed journalist, essayist and novelist — delivered a lecture titled “The Politics of Aesthetics: The Danger of Writing from the ‘Margins’” Tuesday evening. At the talk, Mengestu ...

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