The Lost History of Yiddish Popular Fiction

Adventures in Jewish Studies Podcast by Association for Jewish Studies

Apr 15, 202631:47Religion & Spirituality

In this episode, scholars and translators discuss Yiddish popular fiction known as "shund," serialized in Yiddish newspapers around the turn of the 20th century, and consider the gap between this popular, commercial lite...

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