Studies in Yiddish is the only scholarly series in English that is dedicated to Yiddish, a transnational language whose interesting, if sometimes tragic, history spans more than a thousand years. Its high and low literary and non-literary texts and practices have been of central importance not only to Jewish existence and history but also to the wider cultural and creative life in Central and Eastern Europe, Israel and the New World. The series regularly publishes the proceedings of the International Mendel Friedman Conference, which is convened every two years at the University of Oxford. In addition, the series includes monographs and edited volumes on all aspects of Yiddish language and culture, and proposals for new publications are welcomed.
This series does not have a formal Editorial Committee, but we are advised by:
- Professor Gennady Estraikh, New York University
- Dr Kerstin Hoge, St Hilda’s College, Oxford
- Professor Mikhail Krutikov, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Forthcoming 2014
Uncovering the Hidden: The Works and Life of Der Nister |
Forthcoming August 2013
Joseph Opatoshu: A Yiddish Writer between Europe and America |
Published 1 June 2012
Translating Sholem Aleichem: History, Politics and Art |
Published 28 March 2011
A Captive of the Dawn: The Life and Work of Peretz Markish (1895-1952) |
Published 12 April 2010
Yiddish in Weimar Berlin: At the Crossroads of Diaspora Politics and Culture |
Published November 2008
Yiddish in the Cold War |
Published August 2007
David Bergelson: From Modernism to Socialist Realism — Proceedings of the 6th Mendel Friedman Conference |
Published September 2005
Published 2003
The Jewish Pope: Myth, Diaspora and Yiddish Literature |
Published 2001
Yiddish and the Left: Papers of the Third Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish |
Published 2000
The Shtetl: Image and Reality — Papers of the Second Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish |
Published 1999
Yiddish in the Contemporary World: Papers of the First Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish |


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