Description: Examines the Yiddish-Hebrew writer I. L. Peretz's alignment with the Jewish working-class in Eastern Europe and his devotion to progressive politics.
Brief description: Adi Mahalel is Visiting Assistant Professor of Yiddish Studies at the University of Maryland.
Review Quotes:
"This book is a major contribution to Yiddish studies and Hebrew studies, as well as to studies of Jewish class consciousness, diaspora nationalism, and the Bund. It will contribute widely across these related areas within the broader arena of Jewish studies and is also a well- and long-needed update on the field's consideration of and approach to Peretz." -- Nick Underwood, author of Yiddish Paris: Staging Nation and Community in Interwar France