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About Jessica Kirzane

Jessica Kirzane is the lecturer in Yiddish at the University of Chicago and the editor-in-chief of In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Literature (ingeveb.org). Her translations have appeared in In geveb, Pakn Treger, Jewish Currents, Your Impossible Voice, Columbia Journal, and elsewhere. She is the translator of Diary of a Lonely Girl, or the Battle against Free Love by Miriam Karpilove (Syracuse UP, Nov. 2019). You can find her at jessicakirzane.com and on Twitter at @jessicakirzane.

A Jewish Refugee in New York by Kadya Molodovsky, trans. Anita Norich, reviewed by Jessica Kirzane

Jessica Kirzane

Book review: A Jewish Refugee in New York by Kadya Molodovsky, trans. Anita Norich

A Jewish Refugee in New York by Kadya Molodovsky. Translated by Anita Norich / Indiana University Press / 978-0253040763 / 2019 / 172 pages. In some ways, the narrator of Kadya Molodovsky’s A … [Read more...]

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Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

Each week EM features several poems each by one or two poets; reviews; critical essays; visual art; and personal essays.

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