FROM THE FILTER

Buried Treasure
Florence Wolfson's 70-year-old diary—which Lily Koppel found in a dumpster—"captured the passions and ambitions of an intensely creative young Jewish woman." Koppel's own book, The Red Leather Diary, gives this source material a "lovely shine," writes Alana Newhouse.
05.12.08 | EMAIL | PERMALINK

Familiar Territory
Unlike many of the scholars committed to reviving Yiddish, performer and archivist Mendy Cahan, founder of Israel's YUNG YiDiSH Centre, was raised with the language. "His life replicates in a nutshell the process of modernization that affected an entire people and produced that powerful amalgam of Hasidic themes and cosmopolitan disenchantment that is Yiddish literature," says Haaretz.
05.09.08 | EMAIL | PERMALINK

In His Own Words
The Times Literary Supplement explores the concept of intertextuality in a review of The Cambridge Companion to Primo Levi. Contributors see Levi as "a double agent, engaged in 'ironic rewriting of divine utterances in secular terms.'"
05.08.08 | EMAIL | PERMALINK

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