Josh Lambert
Josh Lambert is the academic director of the Yiddish Book Center and visiting assistant professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He’s the author of American Jewish Fiction: A JPS Guide (2009) and Unclean Lips: Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture (2014), which received a Jordan Schnitzer Book Award from the Association of Jewish Studies and a Canadian Jewish Book Award. His reviews and essays have been published by the New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Haaretz, Tablet, the Forward, New England Public Radio, and many other publications.
BOOKS
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Edited by Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert
2020 Foreword INDIES Silver Award for Anthologies
Winner of the Canadian Jewish Literary Award (Yiddish)
A momentous and diverse anthology of the influences and inspirations of Yiddish voices in America—radical, dangerous, and seductive, but also sweet, generous, and full of life—edited by award-winning authors and scholars Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert.
Hardcover • ISBN: 9781632062628
Publication date: Jan 21, 2020
Paperback ISBN: 9781632062260
Publication date: Apr 25, 2023