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July 7, 2020

A Popular American Yiddish Novel about a Modern Woman’s Personal “Battle against Free Love”

Not much sex in the city.

While the curious English-language reader can find some of the great works of Yiddish literature available in translation, the vast corpus of popular fiction remains untranslated. Jessica Kirzane has changed this with her recent rendering into English of Miriam Karpilove’s Diary of a Lonely Girl: The Battle against Free Love—first published serially from 1916 to 1918. In her review, Dara Horn writes

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