“‘Cries from our Souls’: Bursts of Yiddish in Rabbinic Literature During the Shoah by James Diamond
“Anger, Devastation and Indifference: Emotions in Yiddish poetry and music of Transnistria, 1942-1944” by Anna Shternshis
“Gelekhter Durkh Trern: Yiddish Humor in the Aftermath of the Shoah” by Avinoam Patt
James Diamond holds the Joseph and Wolf Lebovic Chair of Jewish Studies at the University of Waterloo. His publications include Jewish Theology Unbound (Oxford University Press, 2018) and Reinventing Maimonides in Contemporary Jewish Thought, Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, co-authored with Menachem Kellner, (Liverpool University Press, 2019). James is working on a book length treatment of R. Kalonymus Shapira’s thought and exegesis.
Anna Shternshis is Director of the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies and the J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff Chair of Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. Her publications include Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923 – 1939 (Indiana UP, 2006), When Sonia Met Boris: An Oral History of Jewish Life under Stalin (Oxford UP, 2017), and forthcoming is Jews in the Soviet Union: Post-War Life, Hopes, and Fears, 1945-1953, (forthcoming from NYU Press).
Avinoam Patt is the Maurice Greenberg Professor of Holocaust Studies at New York University and inaugural director of the new NYU Center for the Study of Antisemitism. His recent publications include The Jewish Heroes of Warsaw: The Afterlife of the Revolt (Wayne State University Press, 2021) and Israel and the Holocaust (Bloomsbury Press, 2024).