by Miriam Karpilove, translated by Jessica Kirzane
Syracuse University Press, November 2019
From the perch of a diarist writing in first person about her own love life, Karpilove’s novel offers a raw personal criticism of radical leftist immigrant youth culture in early twentieth century New York.
Reviews:
Joseph Berger, “How Yiddish Scholars Are Rescuing Women’s Novels From Obscurity,” The New York Times.
Mikhl Krutikov, “A satirical view of young immigrant Jews in New York 100 Years ago,” Forverts (Yiddish)
Yona Zeldis McDonough, “A New Translation of a Yiddish Comic Gem,” Lilith blog.
Janice Weizman, Reading Jewish Fiction.
Madeleine Cohen, “The Feminine Ending: On Women’s Writing in Yiddish, Now Available in English,” Los Angeles Review of Books.
Dara Horn, “(Not Much) Sex in the City,” Tablet.
Faith Jones, “Diary of a Lonely Girl: A Queer Reading,” In geveb.
Adina Applebaum, Jewish Book Council
Jessica Kirzane 