Choosing Yiddish: New Frontiers of Language and Culture, edited by Hannah S. Pressman, Lara Rabinovitch, and Shiri Goren textbook-shipeasy As Alexander Wolff visits dusty

As Alexander Wolff visits dusty archives and meets distant relatives

the Shabbat table is a centering force

between real and imagined

No mere bystander to history

In the 1920s and 1930s

Choosing Yiddish: New Frontiers of Language and Culture, edited by Hannah S. Pressman, Lara Rabinovitch, and Shiri Goren textbook-shipeasy As Alexander Wolff visits dustyYiddish Hip Hop, a nineteenth century "Hasidic Slasher," obscure Yiddish writers, and immigrant Jewish newspapers in Buenos Aires, Paris, and New York are just a few of the topics featured in Choosing Yiddish: New Frontiers of Language and Culture. Editors Lara Rabinovitch, Shiri Goren, and Hannah S. Pressman have gathered a diverse and richly layered collection of essays that demonstrates the currency of Yiddish scholarship in academia today.