Selections of Recently Published Work
CULTURAL CRITICISM AND COVERAGE
Books
“Samderin un Shisbezem: An Interview with Harry Potter Translator Arele Viswanath,” In geveb, February 2022
“Setting Yiddish Poetry to Music: A Conversation with Alex Weiser,” Paper Brigade, May 2021
“Love Like That by Emma Duffy-Comparone,” Ploughshares, March 2021
“Nicole Krauss Wants to Know What it Means to Be a Man,” Alma, December 2020
“Daring Holocaust Education: On Yishai Sarid’s “The Memory Monster” and Jean-Claude Grumberg’s “The Most Precious of Cargoes,” Los Angeles Review of Books, November 2020
Book Review: The Organs of Sense by Adam Ehrlich Sachs, Jewish Book Council, August 2020
Book Review: Perfect Tunes by Emily Gould, Los Angeles Review, April 2020
Regular anonymous reviews of literary fiction, Kirkus Reviews, December 2019-present
“Sweeping, Bewitching, Divinely Dissonant: A Review of Alex Weiser’s Album and all the days were purple”, In geveb, May 2019
Book Review: Memento Park by Mark Sarvas, Jewish Book Council, May 2019
“A Different Kind of Romantic Comedy,” Jewish Women’s Archive, May 2019
“Who was Elkhonen Zeitlin?,” Yiddish Book Center, June 2018
“Philip Roth’s Greatest Creation Was a Character Named Philip Roth,” Jewish Telegraphic Agency, May 2018
“In a Rothian Novel, Nicole Krauss Explores Questions of Authorship and Authority,” Jewish Currents, January 2018
Book Review: The Ruined House by Ruby Namdar, Jewish Book Council, December 2017
“Watching the (Yiddish) Detectives,” Yiddish Book Center, December 2017
“Idra Novey Wins $100,000 Sami Rohr Prize For Jewish Literature for Debut Novel,” Tablet, May 2017
Book Review: All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg, Jewish Book Council, April 2017
Book Review: Schadenfreude by Rebecca Schuman, Jewish Book Council, April 2017
“David Grossman and Amos Oz Long-Listed for Man Booker International Prize,” Tablet, March 2017
“Seven Jewish Literary Fiction Books to Read This Year,” Tablet, February 2017
“What To Do About Edith Wharton’s Anti-Semitism,” Tablet, January 2017
“Celebrating Derek Walcott, a Caribbean Poet With an Avid Interest in an Unusual Jewish Painter,” Tablet, January 2017
TV and Film
“‘Alone Together’ Proves that Jewy Millennial TV Is Having a Moment,” Alma, January 19, 2018
“Rachel Bloom on the Double Standards of Being a ‘Lady Boss’,” Tablet, April 2017
“Cazzie David Is a Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Cool Millennial,” Tablet, April 2017
Weekly Reviews of Girls Season 6, Tablet, February-April 2017
“Thomas Wolfe’s Forgotten Jewish Muse,” Tablet, February 2017
Visual Art
“Saul Raskin and the Question of Jewish Art,” Yiddish Book Center, March 2018
“Anglo-Jewish ‘Treasures’ From Oxford On Display in New York,” Tablet, May 2017
ESSAYS
“We Need to Destigmatize Bipolar Disorder, Not Laugh at it,” Alma, July 2020
“The Lives of Yiddish Readers,” Yiddish Book Center, September 2017
TRANSLATIONS FROM YIDDISH
“Aunt Taibele,” translation of Sarah Hamer-Jacklyn, Yiddish Book Center, Featured Translation August 2020
“Letters,” translation of Sarah Hamer-Jacklyn, Pakn Treger , spring 2020
“Six Lines,” translation of Aaron Zeitlin, Jewish Currents, spring 2019
“Jargon,” translation of Morris Winchevsky, “Radiant Jargon: Six Poems About Yiddish” (Yiddish Book Center members’ anthology), fall 2018
“We Travel,” translation of Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman with Raphael Halff, Zeke Levine, and Elissa Sperling, Pakn Treger, spring 2018