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), and the co-editor, with Ilan Stavans, of How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish (2020).
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
The Old in the New: Introducing “How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish”
Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert introduce their new anthology, “How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish.”...
The History of Prestige: Blanche Knopf and Literary Culture
Josh Lambert discusses the history of literary prestige with Alfred and Blanche Knopf....
James Deen vs. the Nebbishes
ONE OF THE CONSTANTS, to date, in the media coverage of the 26-year-old pornographic performer James Deen — a wave burgeoning ...
