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According to traditional narratives of immigrant assimilation, Jews freely surrendered Yiddish language and culture in their desire for an American identity. In "Recovering "Yiddishland"", Bachman offers a challenge to this conventional literary history, returning readers to a threshold where Americanization also meant ambivalence and resistance. She reconstructs "Yiddishland" as a cultural space produced by Yiddish immigrant writers from the 1890s through the 1930s, largely within the sphere of New York City. The book spotlights significant works by Yiddish immigrant writers that reveal...

Poetry. Jewish Studies. "Merle Bachman's BLOOD PARTY is a remarkable memoir, told in fragments, interruptions in ways that prohibit any fixed retelling. In it, the impossibility of telling becomes the story: of ancestry, family, and a mother's silence, pieced-together in a poetry that is always vibrating yet never arrives." Kristin Prevallet

"Memory has its own architecture, its own geography. Yet, as Merle Bachman demonstrates in BLOOD PARTY, these are mutable stretching and contracting within the space of experience: strafing events to get at their illogic and yet/memory,...

Poetry. With illustrations by Evan Siegel. "The poems in Merle Bachman's DIORAMA WITH FLEEING FIGURES are intense, visceral and transformative. 'We aren't meant to know so much of the world, ' yet the knowing in this poetry is exactly what each of us craves, the 'translation not yet written' that leads us to both question and believe in the depth of human experience"--Colleen Lookingbill