Journeys Beyond the Pale

This book is deliciously subversive. Garrett demonstrates that the major writers in Yiddish, a language without its own territory, wrote as if their Jewish subjects lived and traveled freely at the center of the world; not on its margins, not in a ghetto, not in a valorized state of exile. - David G. Roskies, Jewish Theological Seminary; ""Garrett's work goes a long way towards conceptualizing and analyzing a phenomenon omnipresent in Yiddish short stories, novels, poetry, and drama, combining theoretical considerations of the journey in general and specific, nuaneed readings of Jewish journeys in particular."" - Jeremy Dauber, Columbia University; ""This kind of scholarship is vital for the further progress in Yiddish studies and its integration into the mainstream humanities."" - Misha Krutikov, Oxford Institute for Yiddish Studies