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Ghetto Writing: Traditional and Eastern Jewry in German-Jewish Literature from Heine to Hilsenrath, edited by Anne Fuchs and Florian Krobb. Camden House, 1999. $55.00.

Consisting of fourteen articles written for the most part by a younger generation of German, British, Irish, and Scandinavian Germanists, this volume is bound to be of great interest to anyone interested in the works that chronicle the journey of the Yiddish-speakers of Central and Eastern Europe from medieval ghettos to the attempted assimilation into the German cultural world. While there are occasional ...