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Ken Frieden
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B.G. Rudolph Professor of Judaic Studies at Syracuse University. Author of Classic Yiddish Fiction: Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem and Peretz and Freud's Dream of Interpretation.

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Portrait of Russian author Sholem Aleichem with wavy hair, glasses, and mustache, wearing a suit and tie with medals on his lapel, early 1900s.
Yiddish literature, the body of written works produced in the Yiddish language of Ashkenazic Jewry (central and eastern European Jews and their descendants). Yiddish literature culminated in the period from 1864 to 1939, inspired by modernization and then severely diminished by the Holocaust. It…
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